Regulation: Care Quality Commission

Our lawyers deliver CQC regulation advice and support to keep your organisation compliant and performing safely. If something does go wrong, we keep you in control.

Providers of regulated activity operate in a challenging environment. Whether you provide residential/nursing care, secondary healthcare or dentistry we understand the context and can help wherever needed, whether that is:

responding to CQC
regulation and enforcement issues
Health and Safety Executive concerns
police enforcement
inquests
safeguarding investigations

With our experience, we provide solutions to enable you to keep performing at low risk levels. We recognise you're running a business and understand that reputational issues and financial viability are paramount – that’s why we provide strategies to ensure your business remains in good shape.

Our experience

The team can advise you on a range of CQC regulation and compliance issues, such as:

Advising on registration for providers and managers
Responding to and challenging CQC inspection reports
Responding to Notices of Proposal
Challenging CQC enforcement decisions in the First- tier Tribunal
Responding to section 31 ‘urgent notice of decision’
Dealing with prosecutions and fixed penalty notices
Support through police investigations and inquests
Expert support for providers in ‘special measures’
Judicial Review challenges of CQC decisions
Regulatory due diligence for the acquisitions of care homes

We know that issues can arise at any time, so we operate a 24 hour helpline to provide advice and support to our clients.

Did you know?

120+

Over 120 lawyers working with health and care sector clients.

Major refinancing

We've acted on the major refinancing of a portfolio of care homes.

Independent sector mental health operator

We acted on 17 acquisitions of residential and specialist care businesses.

Our lawyers

Our team consists of regulatory lawyers with in-depth understanding of the key issues affecting the provision of health and care meaning our advice is pragmatic and commercially focused.