Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of residential care homes were rated as good in (a) January 2023 and (b) each of the last 13 years.
The Care Quality Commission began rating care homes in 2016 and began splitting the ratings of nursing homes and residential homes in 2018.
The following table shows the number and proportion of all care homes rated outstanding, good, requires improvement, and inadequate for the years 2016 and 2017. The data provided includes published ratings only.
Year | Outstanding | Good | Requires Improvement | Inadequate | Total |
2017 | 148 (1.0%) | 10,631 (73.3%) | 3,400 (23.5%) | 312 (2.2%) | 14,491 (100.0%) |
2016 | 37 (0.4%) | 5,032 (62.3%) | 2,727 (33.8%) | 285 (3.5%) | 8,081 (100.0%) |
The following table shows the number and proportion of residential care homes rated outstanding, good, requires improvement, and inadequate across the years of 2018 to 2023. The data provided includes published ratings only.
Year | Outstanding | Good | Requires Improvement | Inadequate | Total |
2023 | 408 (3.9%) | 8,137 (78.6%) | 1,637 (15.8%) | 180 (1.7%) | 10,362 (100.0%) |
2022 | 420 (4.0%) | 8,376 (80.0%) | 1,512 (14.4%) | 171 (1.6%) | 10,479 (100.0%) |
2021 | 426 (4.0%) | 8,618 (80.8%) | 1,490 (14.0%) | 133 (1.2%) | 10,667 (100.0%) |
2020 | 394 (3.6%) | 8,787 (81.1%) | 1,525 (14.2%) | 124 (1.1%) | 10,830 (100.0%) |
2019 | 309 (2.8%) | 8,836 (81.6%) | 1,539 (14.3%) | 137 (1.3%) | 10,821 (100.0%) |
2018 | 209 (1.9%) | 8,736 (80.5%) | 1,746 (16.1%) | 166 (1.5%) | 10,857 (100.0%) |