The inspections that never came back

8,951 rated care services in the UK — 33% of every service carrying a published rating — were last inspected more than six years ago. The rating still shows. The visit behind it does not.

The longest waits

The 100 rated services whose last published inspection is furthest in the past. Northern Ireland is absent because RQIA publishes no ratings at all.

Where old ratings cluster

Local authorities ranked by the share of their rated services whose last inspection is more than six years old. Only areas with at least 20 rated services are listed, so that a small area with one old visit cannot top the table.

Counted from the inspection dates published by the Care Quality Commission, the Care Inspectorate and Care Inspectorate Wales, as at the last rebuild of this site. A service may have been inspected since without the register having been updated; the regulator’s own record is always the authority.