Care Homes database:
Care Homes provide a residential setting for people that require 24 hour care. The majority of Care Homes provide services for older people, but some offer services to Children and those with Mental or Sensory Impairments.
All Care Homes in the UK are registered, inspected and listed by the relevant authority, which in England and Wales is currently the Care Quality Commission (CQC) There are two main categories of care home; those which provide only personal care and those which also provide nursing care. In addition, some Care Homes provide specialist care, eg for Dementia or Terminal Illness.
Care Homes are often run by groups. In these instances we provide the group name, but list each home as separate entities as each have their own considerations/services.
Over 96% of records carry individual named managers. Where there is no name, the record is always styled in accordance with information provided on the registration list, to a title such as The Matron (in the case of Nursing Homes) or The Owner, The Manager, The Officer-in-Charge (for local authority and some voluntary homes) or a similar title.
Where possible we also identify the names of the Home owners. These are 94% at the home itself and 6% at a separate address. In some instances where homes are run by the same person and are clearly in close proximity to each other we have aggregated the number of beds and used the address of the larger or largest home.
The database details the type of ownership of the Homes
Private - includes homes run by individuals, partnerships and public and private limited companies.
Voluntary - Homes that are run by Charities such as The Leonard Cheshire Foundation or Mencap.
Public - Local Authorities still run a number of Care Homes, as do NHS Trusts .
We list the number of Beds for each organisation. The average size of home is approximately 20 beds, whilst only 10% have more than 50 beds. There are almost 3,000 homes with five or fewer beds. These usually provide very specific types of care, including provision for Care in the Community and, if privately owned, should not normally be regarded as commercial undertakings.
The following is a breakdown of the Oscar database firstly by coverage of key fields and then by the 4 key selection areas of the database. The figures are re-calculated every 24 hours based on the latest research.
