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  • Make sure care plans and risk assessments are current, person-centred and reviewed, with people and families involved
  • Check the medicines audit trail is complete: MAR charts, storage, stock counts and any errors followed up
  • Confirm safeguarding policy is current and staff can say how they would raise a concern
  • Check staff training, supervisions and DBS checks are up to date, and the staffing matches people's needs
  • Have notifications to CQC in order for any reportable events (deaths, serious injuries, safeguarding, DoLS)
  • Confirm complaints and feedback are logged, responded to and used to improve, not just filed
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CQC Inspection Readiness Checklist

Helps the team keep the evidence and routines that show good care ready all the time, so an inspection is just a normal day seen by someone new.

10 checksPDF + phoneReviewed for 2026Source: Care Quality Commission, "Assessment framework" (single assessment framework, 2024); Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
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10 things to check.

Everything that matters, nothing that does not. Here is the full list, exactly as it appears on the template.

  • 1Make sure care plans and risk assessments are current, person-centred and reviewed, with people and families involved
  • 2Check the medicines audit trail is complete: MAR charts, storage, stock counts and any errors followed up
  • 3Confirm safeguarding policy is current and staff can say how they would raise a concern
  • 4Check staff training, supervisions and DBS checks are up to date, and the staffing matches people's needs
  • 5Have notifications to CQC in order for any reportable events (deaths, serious injuries, safeguarding, DoLS)
  • 6Confirm complaints and feedback are logged, responded to and used to improve, not just filed
  • 7Check the premises against the fundamental standards: clean, safe, well-maintained and infection-control in place
  • 8Be able to show how you meet each of the five key questions: safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led
  • 9Prepare the evidence inspectors look at: feedback from people, observations, records and staff conversations
  • 10Make sure the registered manager's details and the statement of purpose held by CQC are accurate

Good to know

CQC's single assessment framework, rolled out across England from 2024, uses the same five key questions (safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led) broken into 34 quality statements, all mapped to the unchanged fundamental standards (Regulations 9 to 20).

Source: Care Quality Commission, "Assessment framework" (single assessment framework, 2024); Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

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