Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many nursing homes have been rated by the Care Quality Commission as (a) inadequate or (b) requires improvement in each of the last three years.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care. All providers of regulated activities, including National Health Service and independent providers, have to register with the CQC and follow a set of fundamental standards of safety and quality below which care should never fall. The fundamental standards describe the basic requirements that providers should always meet, and outline the outcomes that services users should always expect.
The CQC inspects providers against the fundamental standards and publishes the results on its website to help people choose care.
The CQC has provided the following information:
Number of Care Homes with an Overall Rating of Inadequate or Requires Improvement Published Between 1 October 2014 and 31 March 2017
| Number of Care homes | |||
| Nursing Home | Nursing Home | Residential Home | Residential Home |
Financial Year Rating Published | Requires improvement | Inadequate | Requires improvement | Inadequate |
1 October 2014 - 31 March 15 | 341 | 97 | 383 | 101 |
2015-16 | 1,309 | 271 | 1,988 | 309 |
2016-17 | 1,241 | 260 | 1,927 | 306 |
Source: CQC database as at 3 April 2017
Notes: Some Nursing Homes or Residential Homes may have received two or more overall ratings since 1 October 2014. The above figures show the number of ratings published and include care homes which are no longer active. The above figures should not be used as an indication of total number of care homes currently rated Requires Improvement and Inadequate. The CQC began rating Adult Social Care providers in October 2014.