Every piece of evidence an inspector checks. One short lesson at a time.

The most complete self-directed inspection-ready resource available. Your practice manager, lead partner or governance lead allocates each audit to the team member who owns that evidence. Built from 345 published Returning to Good reports, so you know what will be looked at, what good looks like, and what not-so-good looks like before anyone arrives.

69lessons
63evidence items to audit
345reports behind it

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One price for the practice. Allocate audits across your team. Start today.

Your Audit Logexample

Evidence	Time to find	RAG
Fire risk assessment + action log	3 min	Green
Clinical supervision records	10+ min	Red
IPC audit + action log	6 min	Amber
Two most recent HR files	8 min	Amber
Clinician registration checks	2 min	Green

Every Amber and Red drops straight onto your Master Action List.

Why this exists

Feeling good is not the same as knowing good.

A Returning to Good assessment re-scores 10 quality statements and carries the other 24 forward. The 10 are the same every time, so there is no need to guess what will be looked at.

In the published reports, below-Good scores keep landing in the same four places. None of them are about the quality of care or kindness. They are about the paper trail:

Safe & effective staffing
Safe environments
Governance, management & sustainability
Infection prevention & control

And a single statement scoring 1 caps that whole key question at Requires Improvement. The work is usually being done. The proof often isn't there.

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345

Built on evidence, not opinion

Published Returning to Good reports, read paragraph by paragraph.

Each lesson shows you what inspectors actually wrote about that piece of evidence: the gaps that cost a score, and what the strongest practices did. 46 lessons quote real findings from 55 different reports.

Course slide: where below-Good scores land across 345 published reports, by quality statement — From the course: where below-Good scores land across the 345 reports.

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A coroner-related case had not been recorded as a significant event, even though the practice's own policy listed it. Governance scored 1.

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Ten members of staff were overdue their information governance training.

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A weekly conversation café was open to all patients, with a doctor, nurse or social prescriber available without an appointment. Supporting people to live healthier lives scored Outstanding.

Reports published 15 April to 13 October 2026. Findings are paraphrased and cited by CQC Location ID only.

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What's inside

The most complete self-directed inspection-ready resource available.

69lessons, each with its own one-page slide. Full content unlocks when you buy.

4	Start HereHow the course works, the Returning to Good picture, your workbook, your Risk Register
22	Core AuditsThe evidence behind the 10 statements re-scored at every Returning to Good assessment
9	Second Wave and PremisesFire drills, business continuity, waste, certificates, lone working and more
32	Going FurtherThe wider evidence set, including medicines, safeguarding and data security, for an escalated or full assessment
2	Closing the LoopTurn your gaps into a scored Risk Register, then re-audit to prove the fix worked

The Inspection Ready WorkbookOne row per evidence item. Log time-to-find and your rating, and the Master Action List and summary fill themselves in.
A slide for every lessonWhat to find, what good looks like, and the Green, Amber and Red standard on one page.
Findings from real reportsWhat inspectors wrote, cited by Location ID, so you see the standard rather than guess it.
Links to CQC guidance31 lessons point to the relevant CQC mythbuster or guidance page.
Bonus: the live workshop archiveFull recordings of the Inspection Readiness Workshops, plus answered questions from attendees.

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How every lesson works

5 to 20 minutes each, done by the person who owns the evidence.

Course slide for Item 6, clinical supervision, with the detail blurred

Read

Why it matters, and what good looks like. A few minutes.

Find it

Start a timer and find the document in your own systems.

Check and rate

Work through the checks. Rate it Green, Amber or Red.

Log it

Two minutes in the workbook. Ambers and Reds go straight to your action list.

The 10-minute rule. If you can't find it within 10 minutes, stop and mark it Red. Not being able to find it is the finding, and it's exactly what an inspector would discover.

Run it as a team

Not everyone does everything.

One lead runs the course and shares the work out. Each audit goes to the person who already owns that evidence, so it gets done properly and quickly.

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The lead allocatesYour practice manager, lead partner or governance lead assigns each audit to the right person: HR files to whoever runs recruitment, IPC to your IPC lead.
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Each owner does their lessonsThey find, check and rate only their own evidence, in 5 to 20 minutes per lesson.
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Everyone logs in one workbookA single shared Audit Log. Every Amber and Red lands on the Master Action List.
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The lead closes the loopScore the gaps on your Risk Register, set owners and dates, and book the re-checks.

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Course slide explaining the Inspection Ready Workbook: one row per lesson, what you record, and how it builds your action list — One shared workbook for the whole team.

It works in real practices

The same method, tested live with 48 practices.

842evidence items assessed live at the June workshops

~1 minmedian time to find an item

27%rated Green against the standard

5.1 → 6.2confidence their evidence would meet expectations

“Is there anything similar for all of the other areas?”

A London group practice attended the June workshop. Four months on, their team is still working through the evidence, prioritising the top 15 and risk-assessing what they find. This week they wrote back to us.

We are finding we have loads of gaps. The approach we are taking is very much assess what we have and then risk assessing.

We have all found the resource pdf very useful. My team have reported back directly that this has been extremely resourceful.
Practice lead, London group practice

We are quite strictly using the Harmony CQC template as guidance… so not to be overwhelmed and actually make progress.

Inspection Ready is the answer to that question: the same guidance, for every area, not just the first 15.

Best 3 hours in the office ever. I came out feeling so much more confident and in control, with a structured plan moving forwards.
Jenny Richardson, Practice Manager, Cumbria

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.
Workshop attendee, June 2026

Absolutely loved this session. It made me realise our weaknesses as a team, which I can definitely direct and support.
Workshop attendee, June 2026

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£299 one payment

One payment for your practice. Your lead allocates the audits, so each team member works only on the evidence they own. Start straight away, at your own pace.

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69 lessons, each 5 to 20 minutes
Built for a lead to allocate audits across the team
63 evidence items with a clear Green, Amber and Red standard
The Inspection Ready Workbook and Master Action List
Findings from 345 published reports, by Location ID
Risk Register and re-audit plan to close the loop
Bonus: full live workshop recordings and Q&A

Questions

Who is it for?

English GP practices, especially those rated Good or Outstanding before 2023 who are due a Returning to Good assessment. It's run by one lead (the practice manager, lead partner or governance lead), who allocates individual audits to the team members who own that evidence. Not everyone does everything.

How long does it take?

About 14 hours of work in total, shared across your team rather than per person, in lessons of 5 to 20 minutes. Most teams start with the four statements where below-Good scores cluster, then work through the rest.

Is this the workshop?

No. The live workshop covered the top 15 evidence items in three hours. Inspection Ready covers 63 items in depth, self-paced, with the same workbook approach. The workshop recordings are included as a bonus.

What if our assessment escalates beyond the 10 statements?

Assessments that escalate become full inspections. The Going Further section covers the wider evidence set, including medicines optimisation, safeguarding and data security, so you're not starting from scratch if that happens.

Where do the findings come from?

345 Returning to Good reports published by CQC between 15 April and 13 October 2026. Every finding is paraphrased and cited by CQC Location ID, never by practice name.

Know you're Good. Before the inspector does.

Start today with the evidence that matters most, and build the proof one short lesson at a time.

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