Prime Reasons for Using Bettal Quality Consultancy for Your CQC Registration.

Prime reasons for using Bettal Quality Consultancy for your CQC registration

At Bettal Quality Consultancy, we interact with numerous potential providers each week, many of whom are considering registering a domiciliary care agency, supported living, or other residential service.

We understand the various challenges when undertaking Care Quality Commission (CQC) registration as a new provider because we successfully support over 150 new providers to register each year and have been doing this, as well as compliance management, for over 25 years.

There are many ways you can approach CQC registration. You can:

• Go it alone.
• Utilise a consultant
• Use some documents from a quality consultancy and social care document provider like Bettal
• Employ a consultant who uses documents from a compliance management provider like Bettal.

We will examine these option in this blog

Going it alone

Going from a standing start to undertaking a CQC registration alone is reserved for those individuals who are very brave, very skilled and who have a lot of time available to them. Going it alone means becoming familiar with the requirements of CQC registration, https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/registration/what-registration, identifying what elements of the advice apply to you and then getting all of the documentation together and completing it correctly.

It also means preparing some policies and procedures, making a submission and being confident that the submission will meet the CQC registration requirements.

Using a freelance consultant

Using a freelance consultant is an effective way to navigate CQC registration with less stress. However, it can be an expensive option, especially if you require them to produce all necessary documentation, including CQC policies and procedures.

This process can easily cost several thousand pounds, and there is no guarantee the policies will be tried and tested at this stage – unlike those from a policy provider and compliance management company such as Bettal Quality Consultancy.

Freelance consultants can provide valuable advice, but they cannot guarantee successful CQC registration, nor can they immediately supply the comprehensive documentation nor the policies and procedures for health and social care needed to run your business and meet Care Quality Commission quality statements and other standards post-registration.

Obtaining bespoke policies can also be both a time-consuming and costly way of gaining CQC registration.

Using the Bettal registration pack

Getting a CQC registration pack from Bettal Quality Consultancy, https://bettal.co.uk/care-registration/, means you will have all of the CQC compliant policies and procedures in place and you will also have the guidance pack to help you to register your domiciliary care agency or supported living service.

Having the pack however does leave you needing to complete the CQC registration process including writing a lot of the CQC forms content yourself. This is time consuming and like going it alone means you will need to read and understand what the application process requires of you.

That said if you are an experienced CQC registered manager or provider, this route is very doable, but you need to be diligent and you will need to spend a significant amount of time doing it. Going it alone need not be a barrier to successful registration.

The other benefit of going with a comprehensive document provider like Bettal Quality Consultancy is that you will have access to all the tried and tested CQC policies and procedures you need to start your business once you are registered and you can rest assured that someone else is updating them for you.

Using the Bettal registration pack and a consultant

The fourth way to get support with CQC registration, which includes customer support after the period of CQC registration, is to subscribe to a policy and procedure provider like Bettal Quality Consultancy and use a consultant to apply for registration.

While this is more expensive than going it alone, either with or without Bettal policies and procedures, it is cheaper than just using a consultant and less stressful and more likely to be successful than going it alone. This route is also more likely to get you registered fairly quickly as the policies and procedures are ready and a social care consultant will understand the process of registration.

Summary

Writing your own application for CQC registration as a domiciliary care agency or supported living provider can be time consuming and has the potential to be very stressful and ultimately fail.

Using a tried and tested social care policy and procedure provider like Bettal Quality Consultancy means you have comprehensive documentation you know has been approved repeatedly by the CQC which will lead to a successful registration.

Using an expert consultancy like Bettal for registration also means that once registered you are in a position to start work immediately as all of the documents, records, policies and procedures you need are there and ready to use to ensue you are able to provide CQC compliant care.

There are many good reasons for subscribing to Bettal for your policies and procedures not least among which are that they are tried and tested and written and updated by health and social care professionals. We also pride ourselves on our customer support, something which is not always available from some of the larger providers.

Bettal Quality Consultancy has a comprehensive and regularly updated suite of policies, procedures, risk assessments and comprehensive documentation tailored to all forms of social care provision, to support busy registered managers and their teams achieve CQC registration and ultimately the provision of CQC compliant care.

Ready to simplify your CQC registration process? Contact Bettal Quality Consultancy today to learn how our comprehensive and value for money policies and procedures can help you achieve successful registration and maintain compliance.

Visit our website at bettal.co.uk,

Email us at info@bettal.co.uk,

Or call us at 08085 020483 to get started!

Peter Ellis MA MSc BSc(Hons) RN

Consultant

Bettal Quality Consultancy