CQC Searches & Preparation
CQC Searches & Preparation
What is the CQC Searches and Preparation Service?
How Will This Help My Practice?
Reduces and works through backlogs
Including of overdue medication reviews, clinic letters, and medicines-related tasks.
Highlights any inspection risks
Identifying and resolving safety flags before CQC inspectors arrive.
Provides inspection-ready evidence outputs
Delivering structured reports, supporting pre-inspection questionnaires and on-the-day discussion.
Prioritises high-risk patient safety
Focusing immediate attention from backlogs on high-risk medicines and patient safety impacts.
Relieves pressure during preparation
We remotely prepare these searches and outputs, allowing practice staff to focus on daily patient care.
Supports practices throughout
Guiding staff through processes and all necessary preparation until the day of inspection.
“The team is consistently reliable. Phones are always answered and emails come back the same day. It’s made a real difference to how we run our medication reviews.”
“Fast email replies and always there when we need clinical input. The pharmacists fit straight into the team and just get on with the work.”
“Excellent service from start to finish. Easy to reach, quick to reply, and they clearly know NHS workflows inside out. We couldn’t recommend the team more highly.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are CQC searches?
How often are CQC inspections completed?
This depends on the risk rating a practice previously receives from the CQC. For those with ‘inadequate’ ratings, they are re-inspected within 6 months, ‘requires improvement’ ratings are re-inspected within a year, and ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ ratings are re-inspected within 5 years.
Within this time, the CQC continuously monitors data through their searches. If the searches show high patient risks, the CQC can trigger a new inspection immediately.
