Maintaining CQC compliance post registration

Registering with the Care Quality Commission can feel very frustrating. It can take ages to get a response from them once you have submitted your paperwork, then the CRB check comes in late and the references are out of date, then you re-submit the references only to find that you now need to pay them a new fee! It can then take an eternity to actually be called for a site visit, and once you are, you spend the week before panicking over where all of the documentation is filed!

However, a painful process it may be, but nonetheless it is now mandatory to be registered with the Care Quality Commission if you want to practice as a Healthcare Provider in England.

Often one of the mistakes made is forgetting that you (or the organisation you work for) has to keep demonstrating compliance against its registration to the Care Quality Commission post registration - it is not enough to simply receive the registration certificate, sigh in relief and forget about maintaining the standards and the documentation you presented at your initial assessment.

As well as providing documentation and CQC assessment support to organisations across the country, Words Worth Reading Ltd also provides free advice and information sheets on how to manage your Care Quality Commission registration. Our latest is on 'Monitoring your CQC compliance post registration', and can be viewed from here: http://www.wordsworthreading.co.uk/images/Monitoring%20you%20CQC%20compliance%20post%20registration.pdf