CCTV and your Care Service
Surveillance technology includes CCTV, cameras and microphones. It can help you keep people safe and monitor their care. If you use it, it’s important you do it in a way that protects people’s privacy and […]
Tips on preparing for your CQC Inspection
Our tips will help you to prepare for your CQC inspection, and hopefully assist you in passing with flying colours!
Eight items to help you through ageing
Everyone wants to stay young forever. However, the cruelty of time means that we will all grow older. At Care 4 Quality we do not feel the certainty of time passing means that you should […]
Help with making our homecare CQC compliant
Since the Care Quality Commission (CQC) came into being in 2009, healthcare facilities around the UK have had a clear and consistent set of regulations they must abide by. These standards, put in place within […]
How to make your care home compliant with CQC standards
In a care environment, it is so important that everything is done to meet and exceed the standards set by the Care Quality Commission. Owners and managers strive to get results which highlight their quality […]
Why invest in quality assurance training for care staff?
If you have overall responsibility for managing a care home or healthcare institution, then helping your staff to offer the best service is a top priority. This will not only ensure that anyone in your […]
Care 4 Quality. starts with your organisational culture
The objectives of the CQC regulation do not include punishment for lapses in sustainable quality and safety; they do, however, promote assurance to patients, the facilitation of improvements and the prevention of future failures. In […]
CQC – New Factual Accuracy Check Form
There are new Factual Accuracy Check Forms in place for Providers to contest draft reports. What has changed, and how are Providers affected? In late 2018 the CQC requested feedback on its factual accuracy process. […]
CQC Consultant: what is their true value?
A CQC consultant is an outsider who is ‘in the know’ in regards to quality care. They will come into an establishment and do what we refer to as a mock CQC visit.
What should be on my CQC Inspection to do list?
Whether you’re running a hospital, care home or home-care service, your ultimate goal will be to deliver first-class care to your patients. But so often the pressures of implementing CQC standards can leave healthcare workers […]
