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Core sorts you will see first

• Best match: HIMBY’s overall evidence ranking using service fit, inspection quality, safety, specialty fit, and local relevance.
• Nearest first: sorts by distance from your postcode.
• Quality first: prioritises stronger inspection and evidence quality signals.
• Shortest wait: uses direct waiting-time data only for GP practices and NHS hospitals. Other service types keep their evidence-based order and are never treated as faster because their wait data is missing.

Access and inclusion metrics

• Disability friendly: built from disability access, mobility support, and accessibility evidence.
• Accessibility support: richer support signals such as step-free access or support arrangements when the evidence exists.
• Diversity / inclusive care: signals that a service works well with diverse communities or has inclusive-care evidence.
• Digital friendly: online access, digital communication, and easier digital interactions.

Quality and reassurance metrics

• Safety: a blended safety score using inspection and governance evidence.
• Family friendly: stronger support for families, carers, and in some cases children.
• Emotional support: more reassuring, gentler, or support-oriented care signals.
• Communication quality: clearer communication where HIMBY has enough evidence to score it confidently.

Specialist and capability metrics

• Best for children: paediatric suitability and family-support evidence.
• Complex case capability: how strong a service looks for more complex needs.
• Specialist depth: depth of specialist expertise for a niche area.
• Outpatient capability and inpatient capability: whether the service is stronger for outpatient or inpatient-style care.
• Emergency capability: whether the service appears stronger for urgent or emergency-style handling.

Waiting-time metrics in detail

• GP wait days: direct GP waiting-day estimates where they exist.
• Same-day access: services with better same-day appointment availability.
• Hospital RTT median: referral-to-treatment median wait where NHS hospital data is available.
• Within-standard rate: how often a provider stays within waiting-time standards.

Important: GP days and NHS hospital weeks are different measures and are compared only within their own care category. HIMBY does not publish waiting times for independent hospitals, community services, mental health services or other provider types unless a directly comparable official measure is available.

Inspection and trust metrics

• CQC overall: overall regulatory rating.
• Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive, Well-led: the main CQC domain ratings.
• Composite score: HIMBY’s combined high-level quality signal from available inspection and evidence inputs.

How to read these metrics

• Some metrics are exact measurements. Others are ranking signals built from multiple data points.
• Not every service type has every metric. HIMBY will often be more precise for some groups than others.
• If a metric is weak or unavailable for a service type, HIMBY should fall back to the strongest available evidence instead of pretending the metric is exact.