I passed a care home last week that had a large banner outside saying "awarded the highest possible rating by the CQC". This may have been true once but the Care Quality Commission haven't awarded ratings since July 2010 so it's not very current.
It's a struggle to keep getting the CQC data into a form where we can use it on Carehomemap site. We had to change everything once to decipher the format that was used from August 2010 but CQC changed it again in October 2011 and after this we were not able to get a list of current homes. We requested this information from CQC several times but it took a Freedom of Information request to finally obtain it:
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/request_for_a_list_of_all_care_hWe are hoping that the format stays fixed now so that we can continue to use the tools that we have developed to extract it. We think that carehome quality data should be freely and easily available to everyone.
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