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State of Care – CQC’s annual assessment of health care and social care in England
State of Care 2024/25 Download this year's assessment of health care and social care in England. The annual assessment of health care and social care in England State of Care looks at the trends, shares examples of good and outstanding care and highlights where care...
CQC update for professionals working in local authorities and integrated care systems
30 September 2025 Update: Changes to factual financial information in local authority assessment reports In response to feedback and in consultation with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG),...
Care Market Review 2025
The Care Market Review 2025 is now available to download. In this edition, they provide you with their latest insight into the healthcare transactional market against a backdrop of normalising economic conditions and an evolving political landscape. Using insights...
New Immigration Rules Come Into Force on the 22 July 2025: A huge setback for the social care sector as overseas care worker route closes
The Home Office has announced major reform of the Immigration Rules and the changes come into effect from 22 July 2025. New rules were laid in Parliament on the 1st July 2025, which will see skills and salary thresholds rise to the previously set RQF level 6,...
CQC update for professionals working in healthcare and adult social care
30th June 2025 A regular update for providers and professionals working in primary medical and dental services, healthcare and adult social care Chris Badger appointed as CQC's Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care and Integrated CarePhotograph of Chris BadgerChris...
Rebuilding CQC programme
A regular update for health and social care professionals on how CQC is implementing its new strategy and transforming how it regulates. Update on our current scoring approach Since 2 December 2024, we no longer score and report findings for registered health and care...