Care Homes: Closures
(asked on 11th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many care homes have been closed in England as a result of (a) complaints and (b) a Care Quality Commission inspection rating of poor in each of the last five years.
The following table shows the total number of care homes that have been forcibly closed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
| Number of Enforced Closures of Locations by Latest Overall Published Rating* | Total | |||
Year of closure | Not rated | Good | Requires improvement | Inadequate | |
2014 | 42 |
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| 42 |
2015 | 43 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 87 |
2016 | 34 |
| 8 | 59 | 101 |
2017 | 21 | 4 | 12 | 73 | 110 |
2018 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 64 | 91 |
2019 (to date) |
| 3 | 7 | 26 | 36 |
Grand Total | 147 | 13 | 45 | 262 | 467 |
Notes:*The last rating cannot be linked as the cause of the closure.
In addition to these figures a significant number of locations will have voluntarily closed before CQC enforcement action is completed.