Creating a ratings poster in PowerPoint

If you have had an assessment under our new approach, you must display your ratings online and at your physical premises. We will be publishing new automatically created posters later this year. In the meantime, you can use the template on this page to create your own.

Read more about your duty to Display your ratings

Download the template

There are two main steps to editing the file to create your poster – firstly editing four text fields and secondly selecting the correct overall and key question ratings.

Editing the text fields

There are four text fields to update in the file. You can edit these by clicking on the default text and changing it to the relevant names, dates or IDs:

• The ‘Rating date’ field: This field currently has default text of INSERT DATE HERE and appears at the top right of the poster. If you want to exactly match our other posters, we use the date format D Month YYYY (e.g. 1 January 2024). This should be the date shown as the publication date of your report on our website.
• The ‘Provider name’ field: This field currently has default text of ‘INSERT PROVIDER NAME HERE’ and appears just below our logo at the top left of the poster. You do not need to use capital letters – our posters will show your provider and location names in the format you registered them.
• The ‘Location name’ field: This field currently has default text of ‘INSERT LOCATION NAME HERE’ and appears just below the provider name field.
• The ‘Report link’ field: This field currently has default text of ‘https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/LOCATIONIDHERE’. You only need to edit the final part of the URL to include the location ID or your service.

Selecting the correct ratings

In order to make sure the poster shows the correct overall and key question ratings, you need to remove the images for the other ones.

For example, if you have an overall rating of Outstanding, you need to remove the Good, Requires improvement and Inadequate images in the Overall rating section.

You can either do this by selecting each rating image and deleting them or by turning off their visibility in the ‘Selection pane’. To do the latter:

• First, open the selection pane by going to the ‘Home’ menu then choosing ‘Arrange’ and then ‘Selection pane’.
• You will see a group of rating images for the overall ratings. You can hide each of the incorrect ratings by clicking the left-hand icon to the right of its name (which is a small circle with a semi-circle above it).
• Repeat that step for each of the five key questions (Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive, Well-led).

Save and print the poster

Your poster should now look complete. You can now save it and print it.