Three hours. Your documents open in front of you. You work through all 10 quality statements CQC will assess — and leave knowing exactly where you stand.
Simple Path includes CQC Clarity, the full governance programme, and the workshop on 18 June — total £138 vs £299 standalone. Saving: £161.
Join Simple Path →There's a difference between a practice that feels Good and one that knows it's Good. CQC is now making that difference visible — for every practice that hasn't been inspected since before 2023.
The Returning to Good programme is underway. 53 inspections have already been published. The same 10 quality statements come up every time. And the inspector is looking for evidence — not reassurance.
Most practices discover gaps on inspection day. This workshop finds them first.
You can't create embedded governance in a week. The inspector knows it. You need to be ready before the letter arrives.
Not all 34. Not a general audit. A very targeted set of questions — and every one has a specific evidence requirement.
What trips practices up is specific, recurring, and preventable. This workshop is built on that intelligence.
Every focused Returning to Good inspection published so far has held its Good rating. Not one downgrade — including practices where the inspector found issues. The ones that kept Good could evidence the work, or fix it fast.
But read that number carefully. It only counts the focused inspections that have been published. When an inspector arrives and can't see what they need to see, the assessment can escalate to a full inspection — and full inspections take longer to schedule, far longer to report, and are not in this data yet. The 53/53 tells you the focused route protects practices that can show their evidence. It tells you nothing about the ones that couldn't.
That's exactly the opportunity this workshop gives you: know what the inspector needs to see, make sure it's top-notch before the 5 days' notice arrives — and where it isn't yet, have the time to work on it, so the evidence the inspector sees on the day is the best possible version of your practice.
That was great Daniel — we knew what to expect and it was achieved. I feel much more confident that even where we have work to do — we have this.
This was so helpful. I have found out there are areas I need to work on but feel so much more positive. I have a list and want to get cracking.
Session has made me feel more confident and not as stressed as I have been. Thank you for making me see this can be done.
VERBATIM — END-OF-SESSION FEEDBACK · INSPECTION READINESS WORKSHOP · 3 JUNE 2026
One booking covers your whole team — and the workshop is only the start of what you take away.
Together we work through what good looks like for 15+ of the key evidence items inspectors are asking for right now — not in theory, but item by item, so you leave knowing exactly what your evidence needs to show.
Before the day, your prep sheet asks you to find your single top evidence items. Within an hour you'll have located your key evidence — and you'll walk in already ahead.
A structured workbook covering over 70 evidence items — catalogue what you hold, RAG rate it, and build your action plan. Don't worry: you build this out over time, not in one sitting.
You keep the full slide set — a reference you can return to, covering what good looks like for more than 25 evidence items.
The full session recording, broken down into a step-by-step video course — rewatch as many times as it takes to get your evidence to a good position.
After the workshop you join a private community open only to practices who have attended — keep the momentum going alongside teams doing the same work.
The workshop trains you to look at evidence the way an inspector does. One booking covers your whole practice — so bring your key team members and learn it alongside each other.
This is not a lecture. It's a working session. You arrive with access to your systems. Daniel guides you through each quality statement — what the inspector looks at, what the published reports reveal, what good evidence looks like. You look. You assess. You record. You leave with a working audit document that is your action plan.
Daniel explains the programme, the inspection format, and how to use the audit document. You'll have it open throughout — it's the working document for the session, not a handout.
Safe environments, Safe and effective staffing, IPC. For each one: what the inspector looks at, what the 53 published reports reveal, and time to find and assess your own evidence.
Staffing is the highest-risk QS across all 53 reports
Supporting people to live healthier lives, Monitoring and improving outcomes. Immunisation data, cervical screening, clinical audit cycle. The inspector reviews your population health data — this module helps you understand what trajectory means.
Short comfort break. Daniel takes questions from the chat on modules 1–3. Back at approximately 10:30am.
Kindness, compassion and dignity. The 2025 GPPS results are the primary evidence source here. You'll know your scores before the inspector does.
Equity in access, Equity in experiences and outcomes. Appointment availability, reasonable adjustments, GPPS access scores. The inspector checks appointment availability live on the day of their visit.
Practices have scored above Good here — the benchmark is achievable
Shared direction and culture, Governance, management and sustainability. Risk register, governance minutes, professional registration records. One published report scored 2 (RI level) here for issues that were fixed in a single afternoon.
You complete the summary page of the audit document. Every Red and Amber gets a named owner and a deadline. Daniel takes questions. You leave with your action plan.
These are the only quality statements CQC will assess. The other 24 carry forward from your previous rating. This workshop covers every single one.
Built on real intelligence. Every module is informed by analysis of all 53 published Returning to Good inspection reports — what the inspector looked at, what went wrong, and what the top-performing practices did differently. This is not generic CQC guidance. It is specific to this inspection programme.
53 published Returning to Good inspection reports, read in full. Roughly 4 in 10 of these Good practices were still pulled up on something — and every single finding sat in the governance, "can-you-evidence-it" layer. Zero findings in clinical care quality, kindness, or equity. Caring was repeatedly rated exceptional.
Recruitment files, training records, induction monitoring, clinical-supervision records, staff immunisation oversight. The work was usually being done — the evidence of it wasn't there.
Oversight of training, premises risk and task completion. In one report, oversight of the practice's own CQC registration status.
Fire-safety risk assessments, prescription-stationery tracking, risk-mitigation action plans left incomplete, infection-risk assessment gaps. The assessment often existed — the follow-through didn't.
Zero weaknesses recorded across all 53 reports. Caring scored exceptional several times. The care is not the problem.
This is why the workshop is built around evidence items, not theory. The gap that pulls a practice down is never whether the care is good — it's whether you can demonstrate you know it's good. Every finding above is a specific document, log or record. The workshop walks you through exactly those items, so you find the gaps while there's still time to close them.
"I've read every published Returning to Good inspection report. All 53 of them. The failure points are specific, recurring, and preventable. The workshop is built around exactly those points — so you find out what needs fixing now, not when the inspector is sitting across from you."
Daniel Vincent — Former Practice Manager · Founder, Harmony CQC · Author, A Simple Path to CQC Confidence
The workshop is available at two price points. Both give you the same session, the same workbook, and the same step-by-step video course.
Member rate — join Simple Path first
One-off payment
Access to your practice management system, shared drive, training compliance system, IPC audit, risk register, governance meeting minutes, and your 2025 GPPS results. The session works best when you can access these in real time. We'll send your prep sheet and a full preparation list when you register.
That's genuinely useful information. Not knowing where something is — or finding it doesn't exist — is exactly what the workshop is designed to surface. You'll know what to do about it before you leave.
Yes. One ticket covers your practice. Bring your lead GP, deputy manager, or clinical lead — the workshop trains your whole team to look at evidence the way an inspector does, and the workbook works as a team exercise.
The live session is where the value is — Daniel works through the 10 QS with you in real time and you do the exercise live. Afterwards, the recording is broken down into a step-by-step video course, so you can rewatch each part as many times as it takes to get your evidence to a good position.
The workshop tells you where you are right now. The Simple Path is the system that ensures you're always ready — the governance framework you build and maintain across your whole team. They're complementary. Most people do the workshop first, then join The Simple Path with a clear picture of where to start.
The next live session is Thursday 18 June 2026, 9am–12pm. Register to secure your place.
Thursday 18 June · 9am–12pm · Live online · Your documents open in front of you.
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