Challenges at CQC are “even deeper” than expected

Posted on 21/07/2025

England’s healthcare watchdog (including for addiction rehabs) is in a sorry state. The man hired to clean it up, Sir Julian Hartley, tells Politics Home that the Care Quality Commission’s problems are worse than he feared. While 15,800 inspections were carried out in 2019/20, this had dropped to 6,700 by 2023/24.