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Care provider

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CQC

Care Quality Commission

The CQC regularly refers to "care providers" as the legal entity carrying on a regulated activity. Providers can be an individual, a partnership or an organisation. Providers in the adult social care sector include care homes, home care companies, specialist colleges, extra care housing, Shared Lives schemes and supported living services.

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