Top rated 2026 · Lancashire
Top rated care in Lancashire: 2026 list
The Care Quality Commission currently rates 9 home care agencies and 10 care homes in Lancashire 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 Lancashire compares
Among 9 Outstanding agencies here, 6 name dementia among their specialisms.
226 registered beds sit in Outstanding care homes in Lancashire, across 10 homes: 4 with nursing and 6 without.
Where they are: Preston (5), Lancaster (2), Blackburn (2) and Clitheroe (1), out of 13 towns in Lancashire with at least one Outstanding service.
The most recent Outstanding rating in Lancashire went to Right At Home (East Lancashire & Ribble Valley) in September 2026, and the oldest current one is Mansard House's, from April 2018. Over four years old: 12. Under two years old: 7, out of 19.
4% of the 391 rated home care agencies listed in Lancashire are Outstanding, against 5% across England. Across England, 5% of rated care homes are Outstanding; in Lancashire the figure is 3% of 379.
Lancashire County Council (2): each of these providers runs two or more Outstanding services in Lancashire.
Outstanding home care agencies in Lancashire
Care homes in Lancashire 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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Register information from CQC as at Oct 2026; Open Government Licence v3.0 applies. We do not deliver care ourselves.