{"id":"cqc-care-providers","title":"CQC-Registered Health & Care Providers (England)","description":"A directory snapshot of every Care Quality Commission (CQC)-registered health and care provider location in England — GPs, dentists, clinics, hospitals, care homes and community services — grouped by local authority and locality. CQC publishes a categorical rating scheme (Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate), never a 0–5 numeric score, so this dataset carries provider records and honest counts only — no derived numeric ratings.","url":"https://geraclinic.com/data/cqc-care-providers","coverage":"England — all CQC-registered provider locations","spatialCoverage":"England","temporalCoverage":"2026","rowCount":40820,"rowUnit":"provider locations","provenance":{"source":"Care Quality Commission — provider directory","sourceUrl":"https://www.cqc.org.uk","publisher":"Care Quality Commission","licence":"Open Government Licence v3.0","licenceUrl":"https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/","attribution":"Source: Care Quality Commission www.cqc.org.uk. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.","asOf":"2026-06-12","modified":"2026-06-12"},"methodology":"Provider locations were crawled from the public Care Quality Commission register and de-duplicated by CQC location ID. Each record retains its CQC location ID, registered name, provider name and contact details where published. Counts are exact record counts — no sampling, weighting or estimation — and no AggregateRating is emitted because CQC ratings are categorical, not numeric.","keyFigures":[{"label":"Provider locations","value":"40,820"},{"label":"Local authorities","value":"146"},{"label":"Localities covered","value":"143"},{"label":"Rating scheme","value":"Categorical","note":"Outstanding / Good / Requires improvement / Inadequate"}],"columns":[{"name":"localAuthority","description":"Local authority name"},{"name":"region","description":"NHS / ONS region"},{"name":"providers","description":"Count of CQC-registered provider locations in the authority"}],"sampleRows":[{"localAuthority":"Kent","region":"South East","providers":1207},{"localAuthority":"Essex","region":"East","providers":1063},{"localAuthority":"Surrey","region":"South East","providers":1052},{"localAuthority":"Hampshire","region":"South East","providers":1048},{"localAuthority":"Lancashire","region":"North West","providers":949},{"localAuthority":"Westminster","region":"London","providers":898}],"notice":"sampleRows is a verbatim sample, not the full snapshot. Open data re-published by GeraClinic; cite the original publisher above."}