Care Home Quality Changes

One of CQC's four strategic priorities is to become more intelligence driven; a key component of this is to use intelligence to prioritise which adult social care services should be inspected. As part of this goal, CQC together with partner organisations have estimated machine learning models to predict ratings of residential and nursing care homes using a variety of quantitative data. Data for approximately 16,000 care homes were available for this work, including: • Overall ratings data from CQC's inspections; most care homes have received only one inspection rating. Ratings were aggregated into two classes for the purpose of this work. • Monthly time series data on the number of notif…