Wardour CQC Registration Starter - 8 Core CQC Documents for Independent Clinics

The registration readiness checklist, statement of purpose template and six core policies to start preparing your CQC application. Eight editable Word documents for independent clinics in England. £59, and the full £59 comes off Clinic Complete if you upgrade within 30 days.

For businesses and organisations. Instant download. Single-organisation licence. Templates only - not legal, clinical or regulatory advice; no guarantee of CQC registration or rating. 12 months of updates included. Email support only.

Start preparing your CQC registration with a focused set of core documents. The Wardour CQC Registration Starter gives you our step-by-step CQC registration readiness guide and checklist, a statement of purpose template, and six core policies: governance, fit and proper persons, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, consent, and complaints.

These are the same documents we include in Wardour Clinic Essentials and Wardour Clinic Complete. Nothing is cut down. Every document is written in plain English, with highlighted [placeholders] for your organisation's details, a document control table and version history, a "Related documents" list, legislation and guidance sources with links (checked October 2026), a regulatory mapping section (CQC key questions, quality statements and the 2014 Regulations), an equality impact statement, and an approval and staff acknowledgement section.

Upgrade credit: get your £59 back on Clinic Complete. If you decide you need the full library, upgrade to Wardour Clinic Complete within 30 days of buying the Starter and we credit the full £59. Your upgrade code is in the download (User Guide, section 5, and the README). It is for Starter buyers, once per organisation, and applies to Clinic Complete only.

What's included

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- User Guide (WD-CQC-00A): how to adopt the documents, the upgrade credit, and a list of the documents the Starter refers to that are in the full packs

- Licence Terms and Disclaimer (WD-CQC-00B)

- Contents Index (WD-CQC-00C, Excel)

01_Policies_and_Procedures (8 editable Word documents)

- WD-CQC-GOV-013 CQC Registration Readiness Guide and Checklist - a tick-box checklist in five steps: deciding what you need to register (regulated activities, exemptions, legal entity, nominated individual, registered manager, locations), preparing people and checks (DBS, fit and proper person checks, recruitment files), preparing core documents and evidence, applying, and being ready for the registration assessment. Includes what to do after registration.

- WD-CQC-GOV-001 Statement of Purpose - a template in six parts: provider details, aims and objectives (with example wording to adapt), locations, services provided, registered manager details, and keeping the statement up to date.

- WD-CQC-GOV-002 Governance and Quality Assurance Framework - governance roles and responsibilities, a meeting structure with standing items, a plan-do-check-act quality cycle, a quality dashboard of example indicators for each CQC key question, and a table to record your governance role holders.

- WD-CQC-GOV-006 Fit and Proper Persons Policy - a table of checks required before appointment for directors, the nominated individual and registered manager and for all staff, unsuitability criteria, and ongoing assurance (annual self-declarations, registration checks, DBS rechecks).

- WD-CQC-SAF-001 Safeguarding Adults and Children Policy - categories of abuse, recognising concerns, step-by-step actions, mandatory FGM reporting, allegations against staff (including the LADO), training levels by staff group, and a local contacts table.

- WD-CQC-SAF-003 Infection Prevention and Control Policy - the ten standard infection control precautions from the National Infection Prevention and Control Manual, transmission-based precautions, aseptic technique, staff health and immunisation, audit and training, and outbreaks and notifiable diseases.

- WD-CQC-CLN-001 Consent Policy - what makes consent valid, material risks (Montgomery), forms of consent, cooling-off for cosmetic procedures, capacity, children and young people (including Gillick competence), withdrawal and refusal, and a consent form template.

- WD-CQC-PAT-003 Complaints Policy and Procedure - how people can complain, response timescales, a step-by-step handling process, independent review routes (ISCAS and the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman), learning from complaints, and an acknowledgement letter template.

Not included: Excel registers and logs, the regulatory mapping matrix, and the other policies and procedures in our full packs (including the minor surgery set, which is in Clinic Complete only). Some Starter documents refer to these by code. The User Guide and Contents Index list each one and which pack it is in.

Who it's for

- Independent clinics in England preparing an application to register with CQC: private GP and independent doctor services, consultant-led outpatient clinics, diagnostic and screening clinics, health screening, and aesthetics clinics carrying on regulated activities

- Founders and registered managers who want to start their registration file now and add the full policy set later

- Providers who want to see the standard of our documents before choosing Clinic Essentials or Clinic Complete