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A comprehensive guide to the CQC’s remote inspections

Last Updated: August 16, 2024

Get inspection ready for a remote CQC inspection

Unlike many other parts of the health and social care sector, providers of home care and extra care housing services find themselves in the unique position that they may experience inspections from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) remotely.

Following a successful pilot amid the COVID-19 pandemic’s second wave, domiciliary care and extra care services now have the opportunity for a remote rather than on-site inspection, with the CQC using telephone and online methods for data collection.