Harmony Homecare Suffolk
Openness & governance
How we measure care quality.
A care provider asking you to trust them with a parent or partner should be willing to show its working. Here is our regulatory evidence, the metrics we track, and — just as importantly — an honest account of what we haven't yet published.
Why we publish our own numbers
Choosing home care is one of the most consequential decisions a family makes, often at a stressful time. Marketing language is easy to write; independent evidence is not. Rather than ask you to take our word for it, this page brings together the regulatory record that already exists about us, alongside the operational metrics we are building the processes to measure and publish for ourselves.
Where we have a genuinely verified figure, we show it with the exact definition of what was counted and where it comes from. Where we do not yet have a verified figure, we say so plainly rather than estimate or round something up to look better. We would rather be trusted for our honesty than impressive for a number nobody can check.
Independent regulatory evidence
We are inspected by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the independent regulator of health and social care in England. CQC inspects providers against five key questions and publishes a full report with a rating for each. Our overall rating from CQC is Good, from the report published 19 September 2024.
The five key questions CQC assesses are Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led. Individual ratings for each of these domains — not just the overall rating — are set out in full in our published CQC report. We link to it directly below rather than summarise the domain ratings ourselves, so you can read CQC's own words.
Safe
Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
Effective
Does care, treatment and support achieve good outcomes and help people maintain quality of life, based on best available evidence?
Caring
Do staff involve people and treat them with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect?
Responsive
Are services organised so they meet people's needs?
Well-led
Does the leadership, management and governance assure the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care?
ISO 9001:2015
Quality management certification, No. 356312020.
NHS service directory
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Suffolk County Council
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Our quality metrics
Reporting period: Q1 2026 (Jan–Mar 2026) — figures for this period are still being verified
Average published review rating
5.0 / 5
All published reviews to date
The average star rating across all 4 testimonials we have published verbatim on our Reviews page, out of 5. This is not an independent survey — it reflects only the reviews we have chosen to publish on our own site.
Source: src/lib/testimonials.ts — calculated directly from the reviews shown on /reviews
Number of published reviews
4
Current, as published on /reviews
The total count of family, client and professional testimonials we currently publish on our Reviews page.
Source: src/lib/testimonials.ts
Visit punctuality
The proportion of scheduled care visits that start within 15 minutes of the agreed time, measured from our electronic call-monitoring / rostering records.
Source: Electronic call monitoring system (once quarterly export is verified by the Registered Manager)
Carer continuity
The proportion of a client's visits over a rolling three-month period delivered by carers already familiar to them (their usual, named care team), rather than an unfamiliar substitute.
Source: Rostering records (once quarterly export is verified by the Registered Manager)
Office call answer time
The average time taken for the office team to answer an incoming phone call during office hours, measured across all logged calls in the period.
Source: Office telephone system reporting (once quarterly export is verified by the Registered Manager)
Complaints received
The total number of formal complaints (as defined in our Complaints Policy) received in the period, logged in our complaints register.
Source: Complaints register (once quarterly figures are verified by the Registered Manager)
Complaints resolved within policy timescale
The proportion of formal complaints received in the period that were responded to and resolved within the timescale set out in our Complaints Policy.
Source: Complaints register (once quarterly figures are verified by the Registered Manager)
Mandatory training compliance
The proportion of active care staff who are fully up to date with all mandatory training modules (including safeguarding and moving & handling) as recorded in our training matrix.
Source: Staff training matrix (once quarterly export is verified by the Registered Manager)
Carer retention
The proportion of care staff employed at the start of a rolling 12-month period who remain employed with us at the end of that period.
Source: HR records (once annual figures are verified by the Registered Manager)
How we collect this
Visit timing and continuity figures, where published, are drawn from our electronic call-monitoring and rostering records rather than self-reported estimates. Complaints figures come from our complaints register, which every formal complaint is logged against regardless of outcome. Training compliance is drawn from our staff training matrix, which tracks every mandatory module for every active carer. Review ratings are calculated directly from the testimonials we choose to publish on our Reviews page — we are transparent that this is not an independently audited satisfaction survey.
Update cadence
The Registered Manager reviews and refreshes this page every quarter. A metric only changes from "measurement in progress" to a published figure once it has been checked against source records for that period. Next scheduled update: April 2026.
Have a question about our evidence?
We're happy to talk through any of this in more detail, or discuss the right care plan for your family.