In our new regular report, FPM looks in detail at what the CQC have reported from their GP practice inspections during September 2025. Using publicly available reports on the CQC website, we highlight some of the behaviours that won practices Outstanding ratings, and the reasons some practices were scored Requires Improvement, or Inadequate. Do you recognise any of the observations the CQC picked up, either good or bad? Do you think the CQC's findings are fair?

FPM reports on several significant announcements from the CQC in recent days. 

From Monday 2nd December the Care Quality Commission will introduce some important new changes to their quality assessments of providers.

It's been a busy week for CQC news - their planned August announcement on inspection frequencies has been delayed, but there's also news of a new CQC Handbook project to get involved in, plus the publication of another critical report.

The health and care sector in England make up 20% of public expenditure and roughly 12% of the economy. It isn’t an exaggeration to say that our lives depend on it. That’s why there is a body set up to ensure its effective functioning – the Care Quality Commission. But that very body is itself at the heart of a new investigation.