Top rated 2026 · Devon
Top rated care in Devon: 2026 list
The Care Quality Commission currently rates 12 home care agencies and 18 care homes in Devon as Outstanding. That is its top rating, and only 4.7% of rated care services across England have it.
Source: CQC register as at 19 October 2026
How Devon compares
627 registered beds sit in Outstanding care homes in Devon, across 18 homes: 6 with nursing and 12 without.
Doveleigh Care Limited (3), Mallands Care Limited (2) and Southern Healthcare (Wessex) Ltd (2): each of these providers runs two or more Outstanding services in Devon.
The most recent Outstanding rating in Devon went to Bluebird Care Exeter & Teignbridge in August 2026, and the oldest current one is Mallands Residential Care Home's, from May 2018. Over four years old: 27. Under two years old: 1, out of 30.
Among 12 Outstanding agencies here, 10 name dementia among their specialisms.
Among 147 home care agencies with a rating in Devon, 12% hold Outstanding (England: 5%). For care homes, the Outstanding share in Devon is 7% of 241 rated, compared with 5% nationally.
Where they are: Exeter (5), Exmouth (3), Tavistock (3) and Sidmouth (3), out of 15 towns in Devon with at least one Outstanding service.
Outstanding home care agencies in Devon
Care homes in Devon with an Outstanding rating
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How the list is made
A service is on this list if its current overall rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of care in England, is Outstanding. We take ratings straight from CQC's published register, place each service in the county of its nearest town on The Care Panel, and update the list whenever we import new ratings. Services that lose an Outstanding rating drop off; newly rated ones join.
Nobody can pay, apply or be nominated to appear here. Ratings can be several years old, so each profile shows when the rating was published.
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Provider details from the Care Quality Commission register, updated Oct 2026. Contains CQC data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Care Panel is not a care provider.