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The Care Quality Commission checks whether hospitals, care homes and care services are meeting government standards. Visit our website at www.cqc.org.uk.

Registered services

If you have completed the registration process with CQC, whether as a provider or a manager, then this area of our website is aimed at you.

Here you will find all the information you need about how to complete the common tasks you may need to do like submitting a notification or making changes to your service.

You will also find information about our work and how it will affect you. This includes the Quality and Risk Profiles we produce, details of our enforcement policy and the annual fees you will need to pay.

Guidance on meeting the standards

Read more about our key documents for providers and managers of health and adult social care services known as the guidance about compliance.

How we inspect

Find out about how our inspectors monitor your compliance with the essential standards of quality and safety.

How we enforce

Information about our enforcement policy, guidance for registered providers and managers and details of our powers under the new registration system.

How we publish

Find out more about when and how we publish information and reports on our website including when we will inform the media.

QRPs

Find out about Quality and Risk Profiles and download the latest version of those relevant to you.

Registration changes

Details of how health and social care professionals should go about making changes to their registrations.

Notifications

Details of the statutory notifications providers of health and social care services must make to us.

Fees

Find out more about our fees scheme, where each provider of regulated activities will pay an annual fee to cover all registration, variation and compliance requirements for all locations.

Legislation

Find out about the legislation which governs our regulatory work such as the Health and Social Care Act and associated regulations.