CQC guidance on hospice inspection scope
Fuller Inquiry · Fuller Inquiry Phase 2 Report · Issued 15 July 2025 · Addressed to: CQC
Source — verbatim from the inquiry
●Inquiry recommendation
To avoid confusion over its remit, the Care Quality Commission should issue clear guidance to inspectors (and others) that hospice inspections should not include areas where deceased people are kept, other than to focus on the needs of bereaved relatives.
Fuller Inquiry, Fuller Inquiry Phase 2 Report · 15 Jul 2025 Source PDF →
Response — verbatim from government
●CQC
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) issued a rapid update to reiterate to inspectors the limits of their regulation in relation to mortuaries, and a further update via its internal bulletin to inspectors. CQC is currently working on revising guidance to inspectors.
CQC · 1 Dec 2025
Evidence trail — what's actually happened since
- 1 Dec 2025 Accepted in full. CQC issued a rapid update to reiterate to inspectors the limits of their regulation in relation to mortuaries, and a further update through its internal bulletin to inspectors. CQC is currently working on revising guidance to inspectors. (Source: Interim update on government progress in responding to the Fuller inquiry phase 2 report, December 2025)
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