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Care Quality Commission (CQC)

The latest news and comment on England's health and social care services regulator the Care Quality Commission

July 2024

  • People working at an NHS hospital

    Patients cannot trust CQC’s hospital safety ratings, says Wes Streeting

    Health secretary’s comments follow damning findings of interim report into state of English healthcare regulator
  • A black woman looks at her newborn baby.

    ‘National disgrace’: black mothers in England twice as likely to have NHS birth investigated

    Exclusive: head of Royal College of Midwives blames ‘institutional racism’ as black women face greater risk of death and stillbirth
  • Silhouetted male pushing an anonymous person in a wheelchair along a seafront as the sun sets behind them

    England’s healthcare watchdog apologises over ‘new regulatory approach’

    CQC ‘got things wrong’ implementing inspection regime and new computer system, interim chief admits

June 2024

  • Akhil Jenny (left) and Geo Ambooken (right): composite graphic image incorporating images of the two men alongside images of work permits and of a care worker at work.

    ‘He didn’t have a contract for me’: the Indian careworkers who paid agents to work in Britain

    People paid to obtain visas and sponsorship certificates but arrived to find little or no work, in abuses of care worker visa system

May 2024

  • Midwife helping a woman in labour

    The Guardian view on maternity care failures: birth trauma can and should be reduced

  • Zainab Contractor and her brother Ismail

    Revealed: thousands of ‘innocent and abandoned’ migrant care workers told to leave UK

March 2024

  • A Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority agent standing above a suspect, who is sitting on a sofa and has their face pixellated

    ‘If you want to abuse your workers, that’s fine’: UK modern slavery watchdog’s funding cut

  • Stovk shot of a younger person's hands clasped over an older person's hands, artistically lit

    ‘Pretty dodgy’: alarm over suspect care agencies granted Home Office licence to act as visa sponsors

January 2024

  • CCTV footage shows Valdo Calocane walking along Radford Boulevard in Nottingham on 13 June 2023.

    NHS trust that treated Valdo Calocane to be subject of special review

    CQC will conduct review into Nottinghamshire Healthcare in tandem with mental health homicide review

December 2023

  • An empty lounge in a nursing care home in England.

    Modern slavery ‘a feature’ of care sector in England since Brexit

  • Thomas Ryan and Clare Miller

    Norfolk care home accused of waking residents with loud music to save money

November 2023

  • Inspectors reported patients being treated in corridors and deadly diseases such as sepsis and cancer not being diagnosed.

    More than half of hospitals in England rated substandard by health regulator

    The Care Quality Commission also evaluated 68% of hospitals in London as ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’

September 2023

  • Hospital corridor with doctors and patients

    Two in five inpatients in England report health decline while on NHS waiting list

    New CQC report also finds growing number of patients think there are too few nurses to care for them

August 2023

  • Rape Crisis said it was ‘deeply concerned’ by the findings and called for ‘serious urgent actions’ to address flaws.

    Two-thirds of England’s sexual assault support centres need improvement

    Inspectors find failures to protect victims and risks of contaminating forensic evidence

July 2023

  • An MRI scanner.

    Revealed: how hidden delays blight cancer care in England and Wales

  • A newborn baby boy is checked by nurses,

    Crisis in NHS maternity units revealed as 21 rated ‘substandard’

May 2023

  • Matt Hancock at a podium reading 'stay home, protect the NHS, save lives' at a Downing Street briefing

    CQC case reveals ‘degrading’ conditions in England care home as Covid hit

  • NHS ward

    NHS England mental health trusts record 26,000 sexual abuse incidents

  • Darryn Gibson of Sciensus on a CBI panel with Amanda Pritchard (left), the head of NHS England

    Medicines courier Sciensus was warned it was failing patients three years ago

  • Christie Hospital buildings

    CQC downgrades leading Manchester cancer hospital amid bullying concerns

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