CQC Ready 2026

Recognise Care.
Build Care.
Value Your People

Recognise the people who make great care happen.
CareKudos is an employee recognition platform built for care teams.
Give your staff a simple way to recognise great work, celebrate achievements and build a culture where good care is seen and valued while giving managers meaningful data about engagement and recognition.

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Staff portfolios
Engagement insights

Return on Investment

The Business Case for Recognition

Investing in your team's wellbeing isn't just the right thing to do, it's financially smart.

Your Organisation
£
Cost per Hire £8,400
Current turnover cost: £672,000/yr

Projected Annual Savings

£275,520 41% reduction

19%

New turnover rate

33

Positions retained

137.8×

ROI in year 1

Engagement Growth Over Time

Based on industry benchmarks and CareKudos customer data

10075 5025 0
Month 1
Month 3
Month 6
Month 12

The Challenge

Healthcare Teams are
Burning Out.

Recognition is invisible

Great care happens every day - then disappears. Staff feel unseen, morale drops, and turnover rises.

Compliance is overwhelming

CQC expects evidence of positive culture. Managers waste hours hunting through WhatsApp, paper notes, and spreadsheets.

Engagement feels impossible

82% of care staff feel underappreciated. Replacing one care worker costs £13,000+. The cycle never ends.

The Solution

The CareKudos Effect

Recognition becomes visible

Staff post achievements in 30 seconds. Peers, managers, and families give stars. Great work is seen and celebrated.

Compliance becomes automatic

One click generates CQC-ready evidence - Well-Led metrics, reflective practice logs, and morale trends. No spreadsheets.

Retention becomes measurable

Real-time dashboard shows values adoption, Rising Stars, and retention risks. You see who's thriving – and who needs support.

"What gets recognised gets repeated. CareKudos turns daily care into inspection-ready evidence."

Platform Features

Complete Care Visibility

Everything you need to manage culture and compliance in one unified view.

Frontline First

Mobile app designed for busy shifts.

Frontline First

Regulatory Mapping

Everything you need to manage culture and compliance in one view.

Regulatory Mapping

CQC Evidence Ready

One-click reports for Well-Led inspections.

CQC Evidence Ready

Engagement Analytics

Track engagement analytics through our dashboard.

Engagement Analytics
Star

Every star tells a story of care.

Recognition shouldn't be a generic "good job." Our Star System allows staff to collect recognition that compounds over time, building a career portfolio of empathy and excellence.

Testimonials

Trusted by Leaders in Care.

Simple pricing for better care culture

Start Small, Prove Value, Grow With Your Team

CareKudos gives care teams the tools to recognise great work, strengthen culture and build meaningful evidence every day.

CORE - One setting

Build the foundations of recognition, engagement and evidence.

£249 - £449
/month
  • Up to 50 staff
  • 1 service location
  • 2 manager seats
  • Create recognition posts in under 30 seconds
  • Give stars to peers
  • Personal recognition portfolio
  • Editable staff profiles
  • Real-time notifications
  • Manager post approval
  • Posts pending review queue
  • Team dashboard & activity metrics
  • GDPR flags & audit trail
  • Temper-Evidence PDF Sealing
  • Core CQC PDF report
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✦ Most Popular

ADVANCE - Growing organisation

Bring multiple teams and locations together with deeper culture, recognition and CQC reporting.

£499 - £899
/month
  • Everything in Core, plus:
  • Up to 3 service locations
  • Unlimited staff seats
  • 10 manager seats
  • Family portal & registration
  • Family stars
  • Anonymous family thank-you messages
  • Home Kudos wall
  • Company core values
  • Values alignment metrics
  • Company rising stars
  • Top Value Champions
  • Turnover risk indicators
  • Advance CQC report
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Enterprise - Multiple locations

Gain organisation-wide visibility, benchmarking and consolidated reporting across locations.

£1,299 - £2,499
/month
  • Everything in Advance, plus:
  • Unlimited service locations
  • Unlimited staff & manager seats
  • CQC report by location
  • Consolidated CQC report
  • Multi-location operations reports
  • Group consolidated overview
  • Data export (PDF)
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Not sure where to start? Core is designed for individual care settings that want to put recognition, values and evidence at the heart of everyday care.

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