# How good is care where you live

> The share of each borough's inspected care services rated good or outstanding.

- Category: NHS
- Cadence: quarterly
- Status: Published on a quarterly cadence.
- Dataset key: `cqc-ratings-by-borough`
- Source: [Care Quality Commission](https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/transparency/using-cqc-data)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/how-good-is-care-where-you-live](https://londongraph.com/g/how-good-is-care-where-you-live)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/how-good-is-care-where-you-live](https://londongraph.com/data/how-good-is-care-where-you-live)

## Methodology

Registered CQC locations grouped by the local authority CQC records for them. THE DENOMINATOR IS RATED SERVICES, NOT THE REGISTER: a service awaiting its first inspection is not a failing one, and dividing by every registered service would make a borough look worse the more new services open in it. Unrated services are published as their own count beside the percentages so the gap is visible rather than hidden. A borough's figure describes the services registered there, which is not the same as the care its residents receive — Londoners cross boroughs for care, and a hospital serves far beyond the borough it stands in. Bed counts cover care homes only, as CQC records beds for those and not for other service types.

## Visualisations

- [Borough map](https://londongraph.com/g/how-good-is-care-where-you-live): Map rated-service percentages while keeping the exact rated denominator visible.
- [Borough distribution](https://londongraph.com/g/how-good-is-care-where-you-live?view=distribution): Place borough percentages around the London median and quartiles.
- [Every rating band](https://londongraph.com/g/how-good-is-care-where-you-live?view=rating-mix): Compare exact rating counts across all boroughs without collapsing the middle bands.
- [Homes and beds](https://londongraph.com/g/how-good-is-care-where-you-live?view=capacity): Compare registered care-home count with registered bed capacity. Caveat: Registered beds are not occupied beds or current vacancies.

## Citation guidance

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