Our new local authority assessments allow us to provide independent assurance to people of their quality of care in their area. We are assessing how local authorities meet their duties under Part 1 of ...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated Abbey Grange Care Home in Burnley, Lancashire, inadequate and placed the home into special measures to protect people, following an inspection in February.

At William Harvey Hospital CQC inspected maternity to see if they were still in breach of regulations from the previous inspection. The department had made significant improvements and were no longer ...

We published this page as part of our previous approach to regulating NHS trusts. We are reviewing its content to make sure it is up-to-date. Core services are the ones that most trusts provide. They ...

In addition to our cross-sector guidance (see Information for all providers), the following guidance is relevant to adult social care services. Infection prevention and control in care homes (this ...

We have updated this guidance to include further information for the search categories. This box only lists significant updates, for example where we are updating the factual content of our guidance.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC), has rated Falcon House Care Home as inadequate and placed it into special measures to protect people following an inspection in March 2025.

Providers must notify us about certain changes, events and incidents that affect their service or the people who use it. The regulations state what a provider must notify us about when there is a ...

You must submit your notification online or send it by email You must tell us about the death of a person using your service if either of the following has happened: the person died while a regulated ...

Important: We are carrying out checks on locations registered by this provider. We will publish the reports when our checks are complete.

In addition to our cross-sector guidance (see Information for all providers), the following guidance is relevant to GP practices and online primary care services.

We published this page under our previous approach to regulating adult social care services. We are reviewing its content to make sure it is up-to-date. Our inspectors use these questions and prompts ...