Specialist mental health
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review care planning, risk, restraint, medicines, safeguarding, staffing and multidisciplinary governance.
Provider support
Secondary Care CQC registration, compliance & inspection support
CQC compliance and assurance support for specialist, hospital and complex-care services.
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Secondary Care services we support
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Learning disability and autism
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review communication, reasonable adjustments, positive behaviour support, restrictions, safeguarding and outcomes.
Children’s and adult ADHD
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review assessment pathways, prescribing, monitoring, safeguarding, consent and continuity between services.
Official CQC guidance: CQC regulated activity: Diagnostic and screening procedures →
Specialist assessment units
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review admission criteria, assessment pathways, risk management, staffing, restrictions and discharge planning.
College and university healthcare
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review clinical scope, safeguarding, consent, information sharing, emergency response and continuity with external services.
Fertility and IVF
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review consent, treatment pathways, medicines, laboratory/clinical governance, safeguarding and follow-up.
Maternity and midwifery
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review antenatal/postnatal pathways, escalation, emergency arrangements, medicines, records and clinical governance.
Termination of pregnancy
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review consent, safeguarding, statutory requirements, medicines/procedures, aftercare and escalation.
Acute and private hospitals
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review governance, staffing, clinical pathways, medicines, infection control, incidents and patient outcomes.
Day and cosmetic surgery
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review surgical governance, consent, theatre/recovery arrangements, infection prevention, emergencies and aftercare.
Prison healthcare
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review access, medicines, safeguarding, mental health interfaces, emergency response and continuity on transfer/release.
Rehabilitation
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review admission goals, multidisciplinary plans, medicines, risk, progress measures and discharge arrangements.
Polyclinics
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Map each clinical service and regulated activity, then review governance, staffing, records, medicines and referral pathways.
Urgent care
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review triage, escalation, emergency preparedness, diagnostics, prescribing, referrals and staffing competence.
Residential detoxification
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review withdrawal assessment, medicines, observation, emergency escalation, safeguarding and multidisciplinary support.
Community addiction treatment
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review assessment, prescribing, safeguarding, harm reduction, monitoring and coordination with other services.
Complex care
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review clinical delegation, care planning, equipment, medicines, escalation, competence and multidisciplinary oversight.
Community nursing
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review caseload governance, delegation, medicines, wound/clinical care, lone working and escalation.
Ventilation and tracheostomy care
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review specialist competence, equipment, emergency plans, infection control, clinical records and escalation.
Endoscopy
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review patient selection, consent, decontamination, sedation, equipment, recovery and complication pathways.
Event medical services
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Clarify regulatory scope and review clinical leadership, staffing, equipment, medicines, escalation and transfer arrangements.
Official CQC guidance: CQC regulated activity: Treatment of disease, disorder or injury →
Blood transport
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Clarify whether the activity falls within CQC scope and review chain-of-custody, temperature control, handling, contingency and governance.
Medicinal cannabis clinics
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review assessment, prescribing, controlled-drug governance, monitoring, consent and continuity of care.
Official CQC guidance: CQC regulated activity: Treatment of disease, disorder or injury →
Dialysis services
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review treatment governance, vascular-access safety, medicines, infection prevention, emergency arrangements, staffing and continuity.
Official CQC guidance: Treatment of disease, disorder or injury →
Oncology services
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review treatment pathways, medicines, consent, multidisciplinary working, deterioration, safeguarding and continuity across services.
Official CQC guidance: Treatment of disease, disorder or injury →
Pain management clinics
CQC registration, compliance and inspection support available.
Service guidance
Review assessment, prescribing, controlled medicines, interventional pathways, consent, monitoring, escalation and follow-up.
Official CQC guidance: Treatment of disease, disorder or injury →
Don’t see your exact service type? We support a wider range of health and social care providers. CQC requirements depend on the regulated activities actually carried out, rather than the service name alone. Contact us for a scope review.
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