Care Quality Commission
In 2008 Government decided to merge the existing regulatory bodies for health (the Health Care Commission) and social care (the Commission for Social Care Inspection), along with the body tasked with looking after the interests of people detained under the Mental Health Act, into a single, independent regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The CQC took up its new responsibilities on 1 April 2009 and began the process of registering all providers of health and social care. As part of this process it will become mandatory private practices to register with the CQC in 2011. Far Headingley Dental Care submitted its application to the Care Quality Commission on 8 December 2010.