What is cqc

What is the CQC? Its main role is to ensure that all hospitals, GP clinics, care homes, dentists, community care and domiciliary care services are providing people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care. All care providers operating within England must register with the CQC.

The CQC carries out regular comprehensive inspections of the standards of all care providers. Safe : you are protected from abuse and avoidable harm. Effective : your care, treatment and support achieves good outcomes, helps you to maintain quality of life and is based on the best available evidence. Caring : staff involve and treat you with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect.

Responsive: services are organised so that they meet your needs. CQC inspectors aim to inspect all new services within months, however this can be dependent on their workload.

Care homes remain ungraded until their first inspection, but this does not necessarily mean they are providing poor or unsafe care. Specialist enquiries for… Journalist or media Request a speaker Get in touch Contact us Get help contacting us if you're deaf or hard of hearing. Report a serious concern As a member of the public As a member of staff at a service or provider we regulate.

Get involved How to get involved How we involve you Consultations Public online community Experts by Experience Partnerships with national charities. Events We attend a range of events throughout the year. Consultations All current consultations Closed consultations. About your care Help choosing care services What you can expect from a good care service Using our information Mental health and the Mental Capacity Act Email alerts.

How we inspect The way we inspect is changing How we regulate services Responses to our consultation Case studies Hospital intelligent monitoring GP intelligent monitoring. Our new inspections Preparing for an inspection How we inspect Reporting our findings About new inspections.

Old inspection model The old national standards About old inspections. Media office media. Quick links Sign up for our newsletters Receive alerts when we inspect services Board meetings Meet the media team Our news on social media.

Publications Inspection reports Search our inspections of services Order print publications Order online.

Highlight State of Care: Our annual assessment of health care and social care. Guidance for providers In this section Information for care providers, including guidance about regulations, how to register with us, what incidents you must notify us about and what we look at when we carry out inspections. Prisons and secure settings Children and young people Autistic people and people with a learning disability Safehouses and outreach services.

See all mental health service reports. Community-based health and care services. See all community service reports. We monitor, inspect and regulate health and social care services. We publish what we find, including ratings to help people choose care. Find out more Sign up to the CQC newsletter. Your information helps us decide when, where and what to inspect. Let's make care better together. Poor care? Good care?

Tell us now We make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage them to improve. Find out about events where we will be speaking or exhibiting , and see presentations we've given at recent events. When we inspect health and social care services, we give them ratings and publish reports about them — information you can use when you're choosing care.

Information for care providers, including guidance about regulations, how to register with us, what incidents you must notify us about and what we look at when we carry out inspections. Adult social care. NHS trusts. Online primary care. Get involved How to get involved How we involve you Consultations Public online community Experts by Experience Partnerships with national charities. Events We attend a range of events throughout the year. Consultations All current consultations Closed consultations.

About your care Help choosing care services What you can expect from a good care service Using our information Mental health and the Mental Capacity Act Email alerts. How we inspect The way we inspect is changing How we regulate services Responses to our consultation Case studies Hospital intelligent monitoring GP intelligent monitoring. Our new inspections Preparing for an inspection How we inspect Reporting our findings About new inspections. Old inspection model The old national standards About old inspections.

Media office media. Quick links Sign up for our newsletters Receive alerts when we inspect services Board meetings Meet the media team Our news on social media. Publications Inspection reports Search our inspections of services Order print publications Order online.

Highlight State of Care: Our annual assessment of health care and social care. Guidance for providers In this section Information for care providers, including guidance about regulations, how to register with us, what incidents you must notify us about and what we look at when we carry out inspections.

Prisons and secure settings Children and young people Autistic people and people with a learning disability Safehouses and outreach services. What we do We monitor, inspect and regulate services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and we publish what we find, including performance ratings to help people choose care.