Inspection readiness and regulatory assurance, with evidence on demand.
CompliantCare is inspection readiness software: one live score for every framework you answer to, from healthcare regulators in the UK, the EU and Australia to employment law. Regulatory assurance means proof that you meet each rule, ready before an inspector or your board asks.
Your evidence in one place, ready for any inspection.
The old way
- Incidents in one system, audits in spreadsheets, policies in folders, training somewhere else.
- An unannounced inspection triggers days of frantic searching.
- Inspectors mark good providers down when they can’t show the evidence for their care.
- The scramble itself signals weak governance to the inspector.
With CompliantCare
- One live readiness view across every framework you’re held to.
- Retrieve six months of structured evidence in seconds.
- The proof matches the care, on demand.
- Readiness runs in the background, all year round.
Your readiness for each healthcare regulator, on one screen every day.
The readiness view scores all the clinical and healthcare frameworks of the UK, the EU and Australia. Here are the main regulators in the UK, Ireland and Australia, with what each one inspects or assesses, so you can see what ready means for yours.
United Kingdom
CQC asks five key questions of every service: is it safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led? Each has its quality statements, and under Regulation 17, you must send the regulator a written report on your governance within 28 days of its request.
Inspectors observe practice, talk to people, staff and managers, and grade each quality indicator from 1, unsatisfactory, to 6, excellent, using the quality framework for your service.
CIW rates care homes and domiciliary support services on well-being, care and support, and leadership and management, and rates the environment in care homes too. Since 1 April 2025, providers must display their ratings by law.
The Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority registers and inspects health and social care services against minimum care standards.
Healthcare Improvement Scotland regulates independent hospitals, hospices and clinics in Scotland, and publishes its inspection reports.
HIW inspects NHS services and regulates independent healthcare against standards, policies, guidance and regulations, to check that care is safe and effective.
Inspections are usually unannounced, and inspectors look for evidence that the pharmacy meets every standard for registered pharmacies. A pharmacy that misses one must complete an improvement action plan, which the GPhC publishes with the inspection report.
The MHRA inspects manufacturers and wholesalers against good manufacturing practice and good distribution practice when they apply for a licence, then as often as each site’s risk rating requires.
Every organisation with access to NHS patient data and systems must complete this self-assessment against the National Data Guardian’s 10 data security standards. The 2026-27 version came out on 2 October 2026.
Ireland
HIQA’s Chief Inspector has committed to inspect every nursing home at least once a year. Since 31 March 2025, each home must turn its annual review into a quality improvement plan and carry it out, and give staff effective ways to raise concerns.
Since 26 September 2024, after a notifiable incident, a health services provider must hold a meeting to tell the patient, or a relevant person such as a family member, what happened: an open disclosure.
Australia
The Commission audits providers against the seven strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards, which have applied since 1 November 2025 under the Aged Care Act 2024.
All public and private hospitals, day hospitals and most public dental practices must hold accreditation to the eight National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.
Registered NDIS providers must meet the NDIS Practice Standards, and auditors assess compliance against their quality indicators.
Employment law duties, with the evidence for each one ready.
The same readiness view scores employment law frameworks in the UK, the EU and Australia. Here are some of the main duties, with what each one asks of an employer and when it applies.
United Kingdom
Since 30 October 2026, employers must take all reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their employees, and must not let a third party, such as a patient or a customer, harass them. The Equality and Human Rights Commission and employment tribunals enforce the duty.
The duty to prevent sexual harassment · Third party harassment
From 1 January 2027, an employee can claim unfair dismissal after six months’ service, down from two years, and the cap on the compensatory award goes.
Since 6 April 2026, a report of sexual harassment can be a protected disclosure, and the law protects the worker who makes it from detriment and dismissal.
Employers must assess the risks to staff and others, and once they have five or more employees, record the significant findings.
European Union
Employers with 50 or more workers must run internal reporting channels, acknowledge each report within seven days and give feedback within three months.
Where a member state has made it law, workers can ask for their pay level and the average pay, by sex, for the same work or work of equal value, and employers with 150 or more workers report their gender pay gap by 7 June 2027. The deadline was 7 June 2026; by 12 November 2026, ten member states, Ireland, Germany and France among them, had notified no national measures.
Every employer must hold a written risk assessment and prepare a safety statement from it, under the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005; an employer with three or fewer employees can follow the code of practice instead.
Australia
Since 13 December 2022, employers must take reasonable and proportionate measures to eliminate sexual harassment, sex discrimination and related conduct as far as possible. The Australian Human Rights Commission has enforced the duty since 12 December 2023.
Under the work health and safety laws, a person conducting a business or undertaking must eliminate psychosocial risks or, if that is not reasonably practicable, minimise them so far as is reasonably practicable.
Readiness that maintains itself.
The readiness score draws live on your policies, audits, training, incidents and risk register. Nobody enters it by hand.
Every requirement in your framework, from CQC and the DSPT to employment law, shows green or a gap, with the evidence behind it.
You see a dip before the regulator does, with an owner and a deadline on every action to close it.
One click produces a complete inspection pack: every policy, audit, record and action.
Six months of evidence, in seconds.
When a CQC inspector asks for six months of medication records, or how you acted on a specific incident, a digital system produces it in seconds. The assessment runs on your terms. See our CQC inspection guide.
- Retrieve any record in moments
- The issue → action → outcome thread, one click away
- A complete inspection pack, ready to export
- Read-only inspector access to your live dashboards
One readiness score that every other module keeps current.
Inspection readiness is the live roll-up of every other module in CompliantCare, so it stays current and honest. Nobody runs it as a separate job.
The obligation map sets every requirement your readiness score checks.
Current policies and completed training count automatically toward your score.
Every audit finding and closed incident becomes evidence in the pack.
“It's very similar to our quality improvement plan but so much easier. We can track everything in one place — the gap, the evidence, the actions — and it shows us where we stand at any moment.”
Quality & compliance manageradult social care services CQC has rated under its current framework require improvement (23%) or are inadequate (2%), as at 4 August 2026. In care homes, the regulator finds the most common problems in leadership: in August 2026, around a third held a well-led rating of requires improvement (31%) or inadequate (3%).
a week the average registered manager loses to manual audits and admin. Continuous readiness removes that load.
Sources: CQC, State of Care 2025/26 (published 23 October 2026), ratings under the current assessment framework as at 4 August 2026; sector reporting on registered-manager admin workload, 2026.
Be inspection-ready at every moment.
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