Top rated in County Durham, 2026
Top rated care in County Durham: 2026 list
The Care Quality Commission currently rates 3 home care agencies and 7 care homes in County Durham as Outstanding. That is its top rating, and only 4.7% of rated care services across England have it.
Data: CQC register, as at 19 October 2026
About the County Durham list
196 registered beds sit in Outstanding care homes in County Durham, across 7 homes: 1 with nursing and 6 without.
Among 3 Outstanding agencies here, 2 name dementia among their specialisms.
Across England, 5% of rated home care agencies are Outstanding; in County Durham the figure is 4% of 149. 8% of the 118 rated care homes listed in County Durham are Outstanding, against 5% across England.
Durham has the most, with 3. Across County Durham, Outstanding services sit in 6 towns; the largest counts are Durham (3), Bishop Auckland (2), Consett (2) and Newton Aycliffe (1).
Resolve (Care Northern) Limited (2): each of these providers runs two or more Outstanding services in County Durham.
The most recent Outstanding rating in County Durham went to Eden House in December 2023, and the oldest current one is Crescent Homecare Limited's, from September 2018. Over four years old: 5. Under two years old: 0, out of 10.
Outstanding home care agencies in County Durham
Care homes in County Durham with an Outstanding rating
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Method
Places here cannot be bought, applied for or won by nomination. Check the rating date on each profile, as some ratings are several years old.
We read ratings from the Care Quality Commission's published register. CQC is the independent regulator of care in England, and a service appears here only when its current overall rating is Outstanding. We assign each service to the county of its nearest town on The Care Panel. Every import of new ratings updates the list: a service that loses Outstanding is removed and a newly rated one is added.
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CQC register data (Oct 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Care Panel is independent of every provider listed.