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Ninety per cent of general practices in England have been rated as “good” or “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission, making it the highest performing sector that the organisation regulates. In a report the CQC describes as the most detailed analysis to date of the quality and safety of general practice in England, the regulator found that at the end of its first full inspection programme—in which many general practices had been re-inspected—4% were rated “outstanding,” 86% as “good,” 8% as “requires improvement,” and 2% as “inadequate.”1 This was an improvement from the first set of ratings awarded to general practices before any re-inspections took place, when 4% …