The CQC register is the definitive map of England's care market — 56,812 registered locations, free and open. CareDex restructures it so sales teams can find, watch and work the right accounts.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. By law it maintains a public register of every regulated provider — and publishes that register as open data under the Open Government Licence v3.0, free for anyone to use, including commercially.
For a sales team, that register is a near-complete account list for the care market: 56,812 active locations, around 14,800 of them care homes, plus domiciliary care, hospitals, clinics, dentists and more. Every record tells you who they are, where they are, what they do and how they're rated.
Each location's name, provider group, service types, region, local authority, bed count, registration date and specialisms — the firmographics you'd normally buy from a list broker.
Overall CQC rating — Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate — plus all five domains: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led. A quality signal you can segment on.
The CQC publishes registrations, rating moves and ownership changes as they happen. These are the buying signals — a new home opening, a rating shifting — that tell you when to reach out.
The register is published for public transparency — so people can check a care home before choosing it. That's a different job from prospecting, and it shows.
| Job to be done | The CQC website / CSV | CareDex |
|---|---|---|
| Filter to your ideal account | Manual — look up one provider at a time | Stack region, service, rating, bed count & ownership |
| Spot what changed this week | Re-download & diff yourself | Alerts on registrations, ratings & ownership |
| Hand a clean list to a rep | Raw CSV / ODS, no segmentation | Export any filtered view to CSV, CQC IDs intact |
| Keep the list current | Stale the moment you save it | Refreshed delta twice daily |
Same open data, underneath. CareDex doesn't replace the CQC register — it restructures it for the way sales teams actually work: by territory, by signal, by list.
Filter the register to your region, service type, rating band and bed count, and you have a complete, qualified account list for your patch — no list broker, no gaps, no guessing.
Around 200 locations register every 30 days, and ratings move constantly. Alerts surface the new registrations, rating changes and ownership moves that mean a fresh reason to call.
Save the search per rep or campaign, export the filtered view to CSV with CQC IDs intact, and the records stay matched to your CRM as the register changes underneath you.
CQC data is official, public and free to use commercially under the Open Government Licence v3.0. CareDex uses it with full attribution on every page and export — so the lists your team works are built on a source you can name with confidence.
Yes. The CQC register is published as open data under the Open Government Licence v3.0, which permits commercial use with attribution. CareDex uses it under that licence with full attribution and is an independent service, not affiliated with the CQC.
Every CQC-registered location in England — 56,812 active locations, around 14,800 of them care homes. Each record carries the location name, provider, service types, region, local authority, bed count, registration date, specialisms and CQC ratings: Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate across five domains — Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led.
CareDex pulls delta updates from the CQC twice daily, refreshes the full register weekly and ratings monthly. Roughly 200 new locations register every 30 days, so your lists stay current without you watching the register yourself.
The CQC website and the raw data.gov.uk files are built for transparency, not selling — you can look up one provider but you can't filter to your ideal account, get alerted on changes or pull a clean export. CareDex restructures the same open data for sales: filter your territory, watch for buying signals and export to CSV with CQC IDs intact.
Filter the live register to your territory and leave with a count of the accounts you're not reaching today. Free for 14 days, no credit card required.