# Where London is cared for

> Every care home, GP practice, dentist and hospital London has, coloured by its inspection rating.

- Category: NHS
- Cadence: quarterly
- Status: Published on a quarterly cadence.
- Dataset key: `cqc-care-map`
- 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/where-london-is-cared-for](https://londongraph.com/g/where-london-is-cared-for)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/where-london-is-cared-for](https://londongraph.com/data/where-london-is-cared-for)

## Methodology

Every location on CQC's register whose region is London and whose registration status is still 'Registered', from the syndication API. Coordinates are CQC's own ONSPD lookup for the service's postcode, so a dot is the postcode centroid of a registered address, not a surveyed building — and for a homecare agency that address is an office, not where the care happens. CLOSED SERVICES ARE EXCLUDED: the API's London list returns deregistered locations alongside live ones and offers no status filter, so each record is fetched individually and checked. Colour is the current location-level overall rating. 'No overall rating' is an absence, not a fifth quality band: it can include services awaiting assessment and multi-service locations for which CQC publishes ratings at individual service level instead. Ratings are point-in-time judgements that can be years old, so the inspection date travels with each dot.

## Visualisations

- [Ratings map](https://londongraph.com/g/where-london-is-cared-for): Explore every registered London location, coloured by its location-level overall rating.
- [Service types](https://londongraph.com/g/where-london-is-cared-for?view=types): Filter and colour registered locations by one broad primary service type. Caveat: A broad primary type keeps each registered location in the total once; its location-level rating remains in the selected-point details.
- [Type × rating](https://londongraph.com/g/where-london-is-cared-for?view=service-ratings): Compare the complete rating composition within each broad service type. Caveat: Different care sectors follow different assessment pathways; this is descriptive, not a league table.
- [Inspection age](https://londongraph.com/g/where-london-is-cared-for?view=inspection-age): Show how long it has been since each service type's latest dated inspection. Caveat: An older inspection date is a freshness warning, not evidence that current care is poor.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.