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Care Homes: Inspections

Question for Department of Health

UIN 121285, tabled on 5 January 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many residential care homes inspected by the Care Quality Commission have been rated (a) inadequate and (b) outstanding in the last 12 months.

Answered on

10 January 2018

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has given the following response:

Between 1 January 2017 and 8 January 2018, the CQC has inspected and rated 8,730 residential social care locations. Of those, 173 were rated as outstanding and 541 were rated as inadequate.

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