Terms & Conditions and Copyright

This website is provided to help patients and the public explore health and care services in England. By using this platform, you accept the following terms:

Data Sources and Attribution

• Contains information from CQC inspection reports and ratings (Care Quality Commission).
• Contains information from NHS England GP Catchment Area Data (via the Strategic Data Collection System), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• GP catchment data has been cleaned by Ribble Rivers Trust.
• Contains Ordnance Survey and ONS Postcode Directory (ONSPD) data, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 . Source: ONS Postcode Directory (ONS/OS) .
• Contains NHS England Referral to Treatment (RTT) waiting times data, including monthly statistics on completed admitted pathways. Source: NHS England, Monthly RTT Data Collection. Period referenced: March 2025. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 .
• Contains NHS England Appointments in General Practice data at practice level, including time between booking and appointment date, appointment mode, and staffing category. Source: NHS England, “Appointments in General Practice – Annex 1: Practice Level Data”. Publication date: 30 October 2025. Available via NHS England Statistical Publications . Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 .
• Waiting time figures are derived either from published NHS England datasets (for NHS hospitals and GP practices) or from our own analysis of Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection reports for other services. Inferred waiting-time indicators are not official NHS or CQC statistics and may not reflect real-time availability or individual patient circumstances.
• Postcode coordinate data derived from dwyl/uk-postcodes-latitude-longitude-complete-csv , licensed under the ISC License.
• Postcode lookups and geocoding powered by OpenCage.
• This website may also make use of other public sector datasets licensed under the Open Government Licence.

Use of CQC Data

• We do not alter or edit official CQC ratings.
• We provide additional user-friendly groupings (e.g. “New Group Category” and “New User Friendly Category”) to make services easier to browse.
• Categories have been grouped for usability. Original CQC labels can be accessed here.
• This platform only displays providers with published CQC ratings. Some newly registered or unrated practices may not appear.

Preference Scores and Analysis

• In addition to CQC’s official ratings, this platform provides preference scores (e.g. waiting times, safety, emotional support).
• These scores are not official CQC outputs. They are generated by our own text-analysis software, which infers patterns from inspectors’ published reports.
• Preference scores are normalised to allow fairer comparison across providers.
• Dental services are assessed by regulatory compliance rather than a composite score; rankings for dental providers are based mainly on user-selected preferences.

Limitations

• This website is only suitable for exploring medical services in England.
• While we strive to ensure accuracy, no warranty is given that rankings or scores fully reflect the quality of care provided.
• Users should always consider official CQC reports and professional advice when making healthcare decisions.

Licence

• Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• © HIMBY, 2025. All additional analysis, preference scoring, grouping logic, and presentation layers are copyright to the website owner.