How To Prepare Your Care Home For CQC Compliance Checks

The term CQC stands for Care Quality Commission. This CQC refers to a department of health commission that ensures every care home is providing the best health service to the patients. They come for the inspection care home and their inspection includes checking the quality of treatment offered by the care homes, the facility of Ambulance a care home offers, the mental health department of the care homes and more. A care home service should complete all the necessary preparation before the day of inspection so that they could be passed successfully after the CQC Compliance check. Here are some tips that a care home should consider and follow, such as

Ensure the health appliances are working fine

A health care home is full with appliances that are necessary for an on-going treatment. Ensure all these appliances are in good conditions and working fine. Also check if any of your appliances is old and need a replacement. If you find one, replace that appliance immediately or before the day of inspection. Otherwise it can be the cause of your stress if that machine stops working on the day of inspection.

Make sure all your staffs are present

A CQC Compliance assessment includes checking whether all the working staff in a home care are sufficiently skilled and efficient or not. Sometimes the inspection team talks to the staff individually and checks their skills. So you need to make sure all the staff recruited in your care home stay present on this day and answer their questions proficiently.

Keep all the necessary documents ready

The CQC team can check DBS records, documents of the admitted patients, case history of the admitted patients and sometimes the qualification certificates of the workers. Keep all these essential documents near to your hand so that you could submit them whenever required.

Talk to the patients

Sometimes the CQC team asks some basic questions to the patients regarding their health condition or the services they are getting from your care home. Give a brief description about the inspection to the admitted patients so that they could understand the importance of this compliance check and can answer effectively to their questions.

All these are effective ways to pass the inspection successfully but at the end of the end of the day it’s all about the quality of the service in your care home. Make sure your care home truly provides the essential care a patient needs and this is the ultimate way to win this day of inspection.