Insights and Guidance - Page 3

Over the past few years CQC has demonstrated its appetite for bringing prosecutions. There was a peak of prosecutorial activity in 2019 and since then CQC has pursued a steady flow of prosecutions...

Poppy Jackson, an Assistant Solicitor from our Health and Social Care Team and Pharmacy Team, has recently published an article in the June 2025 edition of Caring UK magazine (page 21). The article...

Summary This article shares a real-world example (anonymised) of a provider who faced a Notice of Decision and used legal support and practical improvements to stop enforcement and continue...

A recent Care Standards Tribunal decision – Westhope Limited v Care Quality Commission – has highlighted the approach CQC should be applying when deciding on whether to continue to pursue...

It has been a busy Spring, starting with changes to GPhC guidance on distance selling pharmacies, the shock announcement that NHS England will be abolished and just recently the announcement of an...

Essential Learning Points Recent case law and updated statutory guidance has made it extremely clear that if a child is in receipt of the Free Early Education Entitlement, this place must be...

Here at Gordons Partnership Solicitors, we regularly assist applicants for registration as providers and managers when they have received a Notice of Proposal or Notice of Decision to refuse...

The past 12 months have been a whirlwind time for providers regulated by CQC. We have seen the full roll-out of the Single Assessment Framework (“SAF”), the damning findings of the Dash Review...

When reviewing CQC draft inspection reports, it is important to remind ourselves what amounts to evidence and what does not. As CQC stated back in 2013 in its Inspector’s handbook: Unfortunately,...

Recently, we have seen an influx of enquiries from Providers of children’s homes services who have received notices of proposal and/or notices of decision from Ofsted to refuse their applications...