Regulation: Care Quality Commission


Our lawyers deliver CQC regulation advice and support to keep your organisation compliant and performing safely. If something does go wrong, we keep you in control.

Providers of regulated activity operate in a challenging environment. Whether you provide residential/nursing care, secondary healthcare or dentistry we understand the context and can help wherever needed, whether that is: 

  • responding to CQC 
  • regulation and enforcement issues
  • Health and Safety Executive concerns
  • police enforcement
  • inquests
  • safeguarding investigations

With our experience, we provide solutions to enable you to keep performing at low risk levels. We recognise you're running a business and understand that reputational issues and financial viability are paramount – that’s why we provide strategies to ensure your business remains in good shape.

Our experience

The team can advise you on a range of CQC regulation and compliance issues, such as:

  • Advising on registration for providers and managers

  • Responding to and challenging CQC inspection reports

  • Responding to Notices of Proposal

  • Challenging CQC enforcement decisions in the First- tier Tribunal

  • Responding to section 31 ‘urgent notice of decision’

  • Dealing with prosecutions and fixed penalty notices

  • Support through police investigations and inquests

  • Expert support for providers in ‘special measures’

  • Judicial Review challenges of CQC decisions

  • Regulatory due diligence for the acquisitions of care homes

We know that issues can arise at any time, so we operate a 24 hour helpline to provide advice and support to our clients.

Did you know?

120+

Over 120 lawyers working with health and care sector clients.

Major refinancing

We've acted on the major refinancing of a portfolio of care homes.

Independent sector mental health operator

We acted on 17 acquisitions of residential and specialist care businesses.

Our lawyers

Our team consists of regulatory lawyers with in-depth understanding of the key issues affecting the provision of health and care meaning our advice is pragmatic and commercially focused.

What our clients say about us?

“Prepared, professional and pro-active - Mills & Reeve have provided and excellent service throughout.”

Martin Farrow, Former CEO

Sussex Healthcare

“They are absolutely top notch. They have breadth of knowledge and a number of people available in any discipline.”

Chambers and Partners UK

Our expertise

CareTech
Commissioning, contracts and procurement
Governance and partnerships
Health and care inquests
Health and care: M&A and other corporate transactions
Health and care real estate and capital projects
Health tech
Independent sector health and care
Mental capacity
Mental health
NHS digital transformation
Policy, public law and disputes
Primary care
Public inquiries and investigations
Social care
Women's health and technology (femtech)
Employment - health and care
Health and care regulation

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