Rated Outstanding · London · 2026
Top rated home care and care homes in London, 2026
Outstanding is CQC's top grade: across England, 4.7% of rated services have it. In London it currently applies to 33 home care agencies and 31 care homes.
From the CQC register on 19 October 2026
London: the detail behind the list
27 of the 33 Outstanding home care agencies list dementia as a specialism.
Care type: 11 nursing, 20 residential, out of 31 Outstanding homes with 1,015 beds between them.
Providers with more than one Outstanding service in London: L D Care Limited (4), Livability (2) and Norwood (2).
Of these 64 Outstanding ratings, 17 date from the past two years and 33 from over four years ago. The oldest belongs to Kingsmith Care (March 2018); the most recent to Home Instead - Bromley, Chislehurst & Orpington (October 2026).
2% of the 1,510 rated home care agencies listed in London are Outstanding, against 5% across England. Across England, 5% of rated care homes are Outstanding; in London the figure is 3% of 1,188.
By town, the Outstanding services in London are spread across 23 places, led by London (32), New Malden (4), Hounslow (3) and West Wickham (2).
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How services get on this list
Ratings may be several years old, so each profile states when the rating was published. No one can pay for, apply for or be nominated for a place.
Services are listed when the Care Quality Commission (CQC) gives them an overall rating of Outstanding. CQC is the independent regulator of care in England, and we take its ratings as published in its register. The county shown is that of the service's nearest town on The Care Panel. When we import new ratings the list changes too: newly rated Outstanding services join, and any that lose the rating drop off.
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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.