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- Registration scope follows the regulated activities delivered and the responsible provider, including the difference between premises-based and community services.
- Regulation 9A contains visiting and accompanying requirements for relevant hospice activities, with consent and other legal qualifications.
- Use the organisation's actual DSPT classification and NHS-data arrangements rather than assuming every hospice belongs to the CAF cohort.
Suggested evidence priorities
These are practical audit recommendations. They are not a claim that CQC requires an identical checklist from every provider.
- Care planning, wishes, consent and communication.
- Medicines governance and transitions between services.
- Visiting and accompaniment decisions.
- Staff competence, supervision and support.
- Complaints, significant events, records and improvement actions.
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