Care Home Operations
A practical supplies checklist for care providers preparing for a CQC inspection — hand hygiene, PPE, cleaning, waste and the records inspectors ask to see.
OMS Clinical Team
Product Specialists
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Infection prevention and control is assessed under the CQC safe key question, and inspectors look at practice rather than paperwork alone. Most of what they check depends on something being physically available at the point of care. This checklist covers the supplies side — what should be present, where, and what evidence supports it.
Inspectors rarely ask whether you have a policy. They ask a member of staff to show them where the spill kit is.
Dispatch notes from Optimised Medical Supplies include batch and lot numbers and expiry dates for regulated medical devices and consumables, which supports traceability at inspection.
Optimised Medical Supplies supplies infection prevention consumables to care home groups across the UK. Order before 4pm for next-day dispatch on stocked lines.
