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Care Home Review Score

8.8

If a care home has been reviewed in the last two years, you'll see its Care Home Review Score, rated from 1 to 10. The score reflects three things:

  • How many reviews a care home has received
  • How recent those reviews are
  • How families have rated their experience

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Our annual Care Home Awards recognises 20 of the top rated care homes in each region of the UK based on reviews residents / service users and their family / friends.

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Search all UK Care Homes by location

The review score shown below for each location is the average review score for all care homes in that location. Browse all care homes in each location, and compare locations by their average care home review score.

9.2

England

13,927 Care Homes

9.1

East Midlands

1,358 Care Homes

9.4

East of England

1,513 Care Homes

9.2

London

1,189 Care Homes

9.2

North East England

696 Care Homes

9.0

North West England

1,785 Care Homes

9.4

South East England

2,633 Care Homes

9.2

South West England

1,803 Care Homes

9.2

West Midlands

1,558 Care Homes

9.1

Yorkshire & The Humber

1,392 Care Homes

9.0

Scotland

946 Care Homes

9.4

Aberdeenshire

93 Care Homes

9.0

Angus

51 Care Homes

9.5

Argyll & Bute

16 Care Homes

8.9

Ayrshire

71 Care Homes

9.2

City of Edinburgh

74 Care Homes

8.9

Clackmannanshire

7 Care Homes

9.0

Dumfries & Galloway

29 Care Homes

9.2

Dunbartonshire

28 Care Homes

9.3

East Lothian

17 Care Homes

8.5

Falkirk

30 Care Homes

9.2

Fife

79 Care Homes

8.9

Glasgow City

92 Care Homes

9.1

Highland

61 Care Homes

9.4

Inverclyde

15 Care Homes

9.0

Lanarkshire

80 Care Homes

9.0

Midlothian

11 Care Homes

9.1

Moray

14 Care Homes

Orkney

5 Care Homes

8.7

Perth & Kinross

43 Care Homes

9.0

Renfrewshire

41 Care Homes

8.7

Scottish Borders

24 Care Homes

Shetland

10 Care Homes

8.9

Stirling

18 Care Homes

9.2

West Lothian

29 Care Homes

9.0

Wales

1,006 Care Homes

9.1

Blaenau Gwent

18 Care Homes

9.4

Bridgend

37 Care Homes

9.1

Caerphilly

58 Care Homes

9.2

Cardiff

75 Care Homes

8.7

Carmarthenshire

88 Care Homes

8.0

Ceredigion

17 Care Homes

9.1

Conwy

68 Care Homes

9.2

Denbighshire

66 Care Homes

9.2

Flintshire

36 Care Homes

8.5

Gwynedd

38 Care Homes

6.9

Merthyr Tydfil

21 Care Homes

8.9

Monmouthshire

28 Care Homes

8.8

Neath - Port Talbot

55 Care Homes

8.9

Newport

38 Care Homes

8.5

Pembrokeshire

63 Care Homes

9.2

Powys

38 Care Homes

8.8
8.9

Swansea

82 Care Homes

8.7

Torfaen

18 Care Homes

9.6

Vale of Glamorgan

46 Care Homes

8.9

Wrexham

38 Care Homes

8.4

Northern Ireland

412 Care Homes

8.4

County Antrim

123 Care Homes

6.4

County Armagh

19 Care Homes

8.6

County Down

166 Care Homes

7.8

County Fermanagh

19 Care Homes

7.7

County Londonderry

42 Care Homes

8.3

County Tyrone

43 Care Homes

8.8

Channel Islands

48 Care Homes

8.8

Guernsey

22 Care Homes

8.8

Jersey

26 Care Homes

8.9

Isle of Man

44 Care Homes

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