CareFacts UK

Every adult care service in the UK, with the regulator’s own verdict

36,224 registered adult social care services across all four UK nations — care homes, nursing homes, home care, supported living and hospices — rebuilt from the public registers of the four national regulators. See the release dates behind these figures.

36,224registered services
16,860care homes
601,578registered beds
27,436with a published rating

The four nations rate care differently

Each nation has its own regulator and its own inspection framework. We keep every regulator’s own wording and add a coarse four-point band so you can compare across borders — carefully. How the mapping works.

NationRegulatorServices Care homesBedsRatings published
England Care Quality Commission 29,481 14,363 455,794
  • 1,129 excellent
  • 18,353 good
  • 3,313 need improvement
  • 134 poor
Scotland Care Inspectorate 3,871 985 99,057
  • 881 excellent
  • 1,940 good
  • 557 need improvement
  • 4 poor
Wales Care Inspectorate Wales 1,837 1,044 25,128
  • 165 excellent
  • 815 good
  • 115 need improvement
  • 30 poor
Northern Ireland RQIA 1,035 468 21,599 None published

How old is the inspection you’re reading?

A rating is a snapshot of one visit. 8,951 services carry a published rating from a visit more than six years ago — the home may have changed hands, changed manager or changed entirely since. Every page on this site shows the age of the inspection next to the rating, because the date matters as much as the verdict.

Where the beds are

The largest operators

Care is concentrated: a small number of groups run a large share of UK beds. These pages show how each operator performs across its whole estate, not one home at a time.

OperatorServicesCare homes BedsRatings across the estate
Barchester Healthcare Homes Limited 216216 13,664
  • 12 excellent
  • 166 good
  • 22 need improvement
  • 2 poor
Care UK Community Partnerships Ltd 106106 7,427
  • 16 excellent
  • 78 good
  • 7 need improvement
Anchor Hanover Group 132121 6,461
  • 3 excellent
  • 108 good
  • 19 need improvement
HC-One Limited 114114 6,069
  • 3 excellent
  • 77 good
  • 28 need improvement
Sanctuary Care Limited 9997 4,822
  • 7 excellent
  • 84 good
  • 3 need improvement
  • 1 poor
Runwood Homes Limited 5757 4,063
  • 1 excellent
  • 47 good
  • 9 need improvement