Monthly care home compliance checklist for the UK.
A home rarely fails on one big thing. It slips on small things that lapsed between visits: a late supervision, a gap in the fire door log, a safeguarding action nobody closed. One monthly round catches them.
- A monthly round pulls the recurring care audits into one check.
- It covers safety and environment, people and records, medication and a mock inspection.
- There is no single legal format for a monthly audit. Your policies and risk assessments set it.
- Quickler runs the round in WhatsApp. It is not a care records system.
A checklist does not run the home.
The registered manager does. One monthly round pulls the scattered checks together, so nothing lapses between inspections.
What the monthly round covers.
Scattered checks are half-remembered.
A log in one folder, a fire check on a clipboard, a matrix nobody opened since spring. Then the inspector asks for three months. Put it in one round, recorded as you walk.
No app. No training.
Answer each prompt by text, voice note or photo. Quickler writes the report and lists each fault as a job.
The safety checksSafety and environment
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Walk the building. Falls hazards and moving and handling. Hoists and slings under LOLER. Fire and legionella controls. Infection prevention. Check each against the home's own risk assessments. |
Safeguarding, training and care plansPeople and records
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This is where inspections often turn. Are safeguarding referrals logged and actions closed? Are training and supervision dates current? Does a sample of care plans match the resident today? |
Medication, incidents and the mock inspectionReadiness
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Medication: storage temperatures, controlled drugs records and administration checks. See the medication storage audit. Incidents: look back at accidents and what was done. Then a mock inspection against your regulator's framework. |
Health and safety and the environment (falls, hoists under LOLER, fire, legionella), infection control, safeguarding, training and supervision, care plans, medication, and a mock inspection.
There is no single legal monthly format. Your own policies and risk assessments set how often. Regulators expect you to show checks are done.
The safety checks are much the same. The framework differs. CQC covers England, the Care Inspectorate covers Scotland, Care Inspectorate Wales covers Wales and RQIA covers Northern Ireland.
Yes. You get each prompt in WhatsApp and reply by text, voice note or photo. No app to install.