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Supporting you with the new CQC Single Assessment Framework

We can help your service deliver care that meets or exceeds Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards. Whether you are looking to achieve a Good or Outstanding rating or drive forward improvements, we have what your teams need to be ready for assessment.

The Single Assessment Framework sees the biggest change to CQC assessment in almost a decade and is now being used to assess and rate all regulated providers.

We have a range of resources to support you to understand what you and your organisation need to do to meet CQC requirements, what to expect from CQC assessment and how you can best prepare for it:

• Tools and guidance to support CQC assessment
• Learning to support CQC assessment
• Hear from others about the Single Assessment Framework

Tools and guidance to support

CQC assessment

GO Online: Inspection toolkit

Our inspection toolkit is a free online tool providing access to insight, recommendations, examples, and resources to meet each of the 34 Quality Statements of the Single Assessment Framework.

⇨ Access the inspection toolkit

GO Guide: Single Assessment Framework edition

Co-produced with The Outstanding Society, this 300-page guide provides an in-depth look at the assessment process and what steps to take to prepare your service. The new edition includes:

• what will be expected from Key Questions and Quality Statements
• how to involve people, your teams, and others in preparing for assessment
• practical ways to gather evidence
• 34 downloadable Quality Statement checklists.

It’s available as a free PDF to registered manager members or can be purchased for £35 from our bookshop.

⇨ Buy a copy of the GO Guide now

Learning to support CQC assessment

CQC seminars

Our popular CQC seminars will support you to understand what’s needed to meet or exceed CQC expectations shaped around the CQC Single Assessment Framework. There are three seminars available:

Being prepared for CQC inspection - understand the basics

This seminar brings together frontline managers to learn about the step-by-step ways to be ready to evidence that your service meets CQC expectations to achieve a Good or Outstanding rating. Discover practical ways to prepare for assessment and evidence the quality care you’re providing.

⇨ Find out more

Delivering outstanding care - strive to be the best

This interactive seminar is for services who want to understand what Outstanding care looks like and how to deliver and evidence this. You will learn what is needed to go beyond providing good care and demonstrate your care is worthy of an Outstanding rating.

⇨ Find out more

Improving your CQC rating - recover your rating

This interactive seminar is for services who have fallen below CQC standards and are looking for practical ways to recover. You will learn about tried and tested ways to successfully implement improvements.

⇨ Find out more

The cost of each seminar is £120 +VAT per person. A 10% discount is available for ASC-WDS account holders. 

⇨ Find out more about our CQC seminars and how to book your place 

Hear from others about the

Single Assessment Framework

We’ve recently published two blogs relating to the introduction of the new CQC Single Assessment Framework which you may find useful.

CQC assessment: first impressions and tools to help

Rob Hargreaves, Information Services Manager, Skills for Care shares initial feedback from some of the first assessments and what can help providers to be ready.

First impressions of the Single Assessment Framework 

Keith Dias, Responsible Person for Apex Healthcare Service Ltd, a domiciliary care service in Reading, shares his experience of the new approach being used by the CQC.

Find out more about our dedicated resources to support you with

CQC assessment

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