CQC fundamental standards of quality and safety for health and social care covering person-centred care, staffing, governance, and safeguarding. Applies to registered health and social care providers in England.
12
Rules extracted
181
Obligations decomposed
15.1x
Avg obligations per rule
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Jurisdiction
The CQC Fundamental Standards set out the minimum standards of care that people should expect when they use health and social care services in England. They are set out in the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and enforced by the Care Quality Commission. The standards cover person-centred care, dignity and respect, consent, safe care and treatment, safeguarding, nutrition and hydration, premises and equipment, complaints, governance, staffing, fit and proper persons, and duty of candour.
Source
1
Regulation
Extracted
12
Rules
Decomposed
181
Obligations
Decomposition ratio
Each rule is decomposed into an average of 15.1 atomic obligations — the smallest testable units that can be independently violated.
Fully extracted & scored
All 181 obligations have been decomposed, titled, risk-scored, and embedded for semantic matching.
Every obligation in CQC Fundamental Standards is scored across independent risk dimensions:
Obligation Weight
How critical within the regulatory framework
Violation Likelihood
How often breached in practice
Enforcement Evidence
Regulator enforcement history and penalties
Cascade Dependency
How many obligations depend on this one
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