Find all the information you need about our new approach to assessing providers of care services, local authorities and integrated care systems.

Apr 4, 2024 · Good governance. The provider of your care must have plans that ensure they can meet these standards. They must have effective governance and systems to check on the quality and safety of care.

Search for care homes, home care agencies, hospitals, GPs, dentists and other health or social care services. Use our inspection reports and ratings to compare services and help you choose care.

Our purpose and role CQC is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.

Use our information to check care homes in England and the quality of their care. Check the quality of care. We inspect and rate residential care homes and nursing homes.

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Jan 8, 2025 · Quality statements are the commitments that providers, commissioners and system leaders should live up to. Expressed as ‘we statements’, they show what is needed to deliver high-quality, person-centred care.

May 5, 2022 · We’re the independent regulator of health and social care in England. Our purpose. We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage care services to improve.

Apr 5, 2023 · We monitor, inspect and regulate services that provide health and social care. This includes ambulances, care homes, clinics, community services, dentists, doctors and GPs, hospitals, hospices, mental health services and services in your home.

Dec 6, 2024 · Change history. 8 January 2024. Minor change: references to 'single assessment framework' changed to 'assessment framework'. 6 December 2024. We updated the page 'How we reach a rating' to reflect our decision to stop scoring at evidence category level.

Nov 18, 2024 · You need to register with us if you plan to provide a regulated activity in England.. We need to establish that you will provide services that are safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and well-led.

Sep 16, 2024 · Key question and core service ratings. In addition, we give a rating for each of our 5 key questions.. We also give ratings for the types of services that acute hospitals, specialist mental health services and community health services provide.

Feb 28, 2024 · If you run a care service and carry on a regulated activity there are certain things you have to do by law. The law also makes requirements of CQC, and sets out the powers it has to regulate services.

Information for health and social care providers, local authorities and integrated care systems. To read about our old approach, visit our original guidance for providers page.

Jan 10, 2025 · To support the transparency and consistency of our judgements, we have introduced a scoring framework into our assessments. Where appropriate, we’ll continue to describe the quality of care using our 4 ratings: outstanding, good, requires improvement, or …

Safeguarding means protecting people's health, wellbeing and human rights, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. It's fundamental to high-quality health and social care.

Jul 18, 2022 · If you're looking for a family doctor or GP, you can check what services they offer and the quality of care you can expect. Check the quality of care

This page is about our pre-2024 approach to regulation. To find out about our new approach, visit our guidance and regulation page for providers, local authorities and integrated care systems. Visit our new guidance and regulation page Look up information for your sector, including guidance about ...

May 21, 2024 · The levels we rate are: Level 1: A rating for every key question at service level. For example, a rating for how safe a care home is or how effective the surgery service at a hospital is.

Jan 29, 2025 · You may need to register with CQC if you provide, or intend to provide, health or adult social care activities in England. This is a legal requirement under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. You must apply to be registered even if you do not intend to provide those services on a regular or ...