The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent health and adult social care regulator.

Their job is to make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and we encourage them to improve.

They do this by monitoring, inspecting and regulating services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and we publish what we find, including performance ratings to help people choose care.

Last year the CQC set out its new plans for regulating, inspecting and monitoring GP practices and GP out-of-hours services. Fresh Start for GP Practice Inspections