Care Quality Commission
Ian Dilks, Chair of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has confirmed that he will not be seeking reappointment when his three-year term ends on 31 March 2025.
Find and compare services - Care Quality Commission
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.
The fundamental standards - Care Quality Commission
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.
About us - Care Quality Commission
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.
Find a care home - Care Quality Commission
May 12, 2022 · 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.
Our ratings and scores - Care Quality Commission
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.
Services we regulate - Care Quality Commission
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.
Assessment framework - Care Quality Commission
Jan 8, 2025 · Our assessment framework is made up of 5 key questions and, under each key question, a set of quality statements. Our 5 key questions are the things we ask of all health and social care services. We ask if they are: safe effective caring responsive to people's needs well-led Quality statements are ...
Assessment - Care Quality Commission
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.
Quality of care - Care Quality Commission
Oct 20, 2023 · Current picture of quality. During 2022/23, we continued to take a risk-based approach to inspections, focusing our activity on those core services we know that, nationally, are operating with an increased level of risk, and on individual providers where our monitoring identifies safety concerns.