CQC Registration
End-to-end application support for new providers, location changes, and registered manager applications.
- Statement of Purpose
- Registered Manager & Nominated Individual support
- Registration interview preparation
CQC Regulatory Specialists
Regulatory clarity for modern healthcare.
Govanta Compliance helps clinics, digital health platforms and independent hospitals register with the Care Quality Commission, pass inspection, and stay compliant – without slowing your service down.
35+ Clinics & services supported
20+ Healthcare sectors covered
UK-wide Remote & on-site support
What we do
End-to-end regulatory support, from day zero to inspection day.
Whether you're launching a new digital health service or running an established care provider, we embed alongside your team and take the regulatory workload off your plate.
Digital Health Regulatory
Specialist support for telehealth, virtual clinics, aesthetics platforms and online prescribing services navigating a fast-moving regulatory landscape.
- DTAC readiness
- Clinical governance frameworks
- MHRA & data protection alignment
Mock Inspections
Independent, inspector-style review of your service against the CQC's Single Assessment Framework – with a clear, prioritised action plan.
- Single Assessment Framework review
- Staff & leader interviews
- Evidence-pack audit
Policies & Procedures
Bespoke, service-specific policies and procedures written to your model of care – not generic templates lifted from a folder.
- Service-specific drafting
- Annual review cycles
- Mapped to CQC quality statements
Ongoing Compliance
Monthly retainer support for providers who want a regulatory partner on call – not just a one-off consultant.
- Monthly compliance reviews
- Statutory notification support
- Priority response
Crisis & Enforcement Support
Rapid-response support for providers facing warning notices, refused applications, conditions, or services in special measures.
- Warning notice & Notice of Proposal response
- Rescue & resubmission
- Re-inspection readiness
Specialist programmes
Beyond CQC: the regulation that lands on digital health and diagnostics.
Most of our clients hit more than one regime. Sell into the NHS and clinical safety standards apply. Build a product and device regulation applies. Run a laboratory and UKAS does. We run these as one strategy rather than three.
Clinical Safety & DCB0129
NHS clinical risk management under DCB0129 and DCB0160 – and a named, registered clinician acting as your Clinical Safety Officer on a fractional basis.
- Fractional Clinical Safety Officer
- Hazard Log & Clinical Safety Case Report
- DTAC clinical safety evidence
ISO 15189 Accreditation
UKAS accreditation to ISO 15189:2022 for medical laboratories – quality management system, technical competence evidence and assessment preparation.
- Gap analysis & QMS build
- Validation & competency evidence
- Aligned with CQC registration
Medical Device Regulation
Is your software a medical device, and what class? Qualification and classification under UK MDR and EU MDR 2017/745, and how that reaches market.
- Qualification & classification opinion
- Rule 11 software & AI
- UKCA, CE & ISO 13485 readiness
Partners
We work alongside the platforms our clients already run on.
Regulatory compliance doesn't live in a document folder – it lives in the systems your clinicians use every day. We partner with practice management and compliance platforms so the evidence CQC asks for is generated by the way you already work.
Semble
Practice managementCloud practice management software for UK private clinics – scheduling, clinical records, invoicing and patient communications in one system. We help Semble clinics turn their day-to-day record keeping into CQC-ready evidence, and advise Semble users on registration and governance.
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Compliance platformA healthcare compliance platform covering CQC, clinical safety standards (DCB0129 and DCB0160), DTAC and ISO frameworks. Govanta built Assuric's CQC policy template library and advises on its CQC framework; Assuric offers Govanta's registration service to its customers.
Visit AssuricMedical Practice Management
Practice operationsPractice management and operational support for private healthcare providers, covering the business side of running a clinic – from setup and billing through to day-to-day administration. We pair their operational support with our regulatory workstream so new clinics can launch and register in parallel.
Platform or agency working with UK healthcare providers? We partner selectively where regulatory support genuinely helps your customers. Talk to us about partnering.
Client results
What providers say.
Founders, medical directors and registered managers who have been through it.
We had a number of specific requirements being a medical device developer, and Johnny gave us highly expert and tailored advice, helping us be well prepared for the CQC main and RM interviews. We got through in probably a quarter of the time it would have taken just trying to figure it out ourselves.
Former Medical Director & Registered Manager, Ufonia
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Our approach
Built by operators, not auditors.
We've registered our own services, managed our own inspections, and built compliance systems that clinicians actually use.
Healthcare-first
We specialise in physical and digital clinics, with deep experience across supported living, residential and domiciliary care. We understand the model before we write the policy.
Pragmatic, not paper-heavy
Compliance that staff can follow on a Tuesday morning. No 400-page policy folders gathering dust. Everything is calibrated to the real operating reality of your service.
On-call, not one-off
Our retainer clients get a regulatory partner who answers the phone. No project scope creep, no ticket systems – direct access to senior expertise when you need it.
The team
Senior people on every engagement.
You won't be handed to a junior consultant. The people you meet on the scoping call are the people who do the work.
Dr Jonathan Andrews
Founder & Principal ConsultantA UK medical doctor since 2015, Johnny founded Govanta Compliance after seeing too many good providers let down by generic consultancies that didn't understand their model of care. He holds medical director, non-executive director and clinical director roles across UK healthtech, and leads on the digital health and specialist engagements where regulatory nuance matters most.
Dr Sophie McEvoy
Consultant · BSc MBBS MRCPCHA UK-registered doctor, Sophie consults on clinical governance, clinical audit and quality improvement. Her NHS record is a run of measurable change – a referral redesign that won a regional quality improvement award, and an admissions proforma that took documented capacity assessment from 0% to 94%. That evidenced, before-and-after way of working is exactly what CQC looks for under well-led, and it is what she brings to Govanta engagements.
Common questions
CQC registration, answered plainly.
The questions providers ask us most often. See all questions.
What does Govanta Compliance do?
Govanta Compliance is a UK consultancy that gets healthcare providers registered with the Care Quality Commission and keeps them compliant afterwards. We handle CQC provider and registered manager applications, Statements of Purpose, policy sets, mock inspections against the Single Assessment Framework, and responses to CQC enforcement action. We work with private clinics, digital health platforms, diagnostic services and care providers across England.
How long does CQC registration take?
We typically take 2 to 4 weeks to prepare and submit a complete CQC new provider application. CQC's own assessment then usually adds a further 10 to 14 weeks, including the registered manager interview. Total time from kick-off to a granted registration is commonly 3 to 5 months. CQC does not guarantee a timescale, and incomplete applications are returned as invalid, which restarts the clock.
Do you work with digital health and telemedicine providers?
Yes – it is one of our core specialisms. We support telemedicine services, online prescribing platforms, GLP-1 and weight management providers, remote ADHD and mental health services, and digital therapeutics. Alongside CQC registration we cover DTAC, DCB0129 and DCB0160 clinical risk management, medical device classification under the UK MDR, and information governance.
Can you help if our CQC application was refused or returned as invalid?
Yes. We run a dedicated rescue and resubmission service. We obtain and review the failed submission, identify what triggered the return or refusal, rework the application, and carry it through to acceptance and the registered manager interview. We also draft representations in response to a Notice of Proposal to refuse registration, which carries a strict statutory deadline – contact us as early as possible if you have received one.
What does it cost?
We quote a fixed fee for defined scopes such as a full done-for-you CQC registration, and an hourly rate for ad hoc advisory work. Ongoing compliance partnerships are priced as a monthly retainer. Every quote follows a scoping call, so you know the number and the timeline before you commit. Request a quote and we will come back within one working day.