Care Change Alerts, for pharmacy and medicines
Find new care homes and changes of provider near your pharmacy.
A home that has just registered, or has moved to a new provider, is a dated reason to ask who supplies its medicines.
Pharmacy and medicines
A new home or a new provider is a dated change on the CQC register.
Medicines contracts for a care home are set up when the home registers and are often reviewed when a new provider takes over. The CQC register records both with a date, weeks before a tender or a phone call tells you.
The alert tells you which you are looking at, in your territory, with the provider's company checked and the beds on the register, so you decide who to call first.
A real example
A real example, read for pharmacy and medicines
From Care Change Alerts. Real, checked against Companies House, at least seven days old.
From a real Care Change Alerts briefing
New home registered. St Lawrences Lodge, provider Simba Residential Care Limited, company 13955365
What changed. CQC registered St Lawrences Lodge, 275 Stockport Road, Manchester M34 6AX, on 13 July 2026, 20 beds, provider Simba Residential Care Limited, ownership type Organisation on the register. No rating yet. Classified as a genuinely new location, not a provider transfer.
Where. Manchester M34, North West of England
Harrier Assessment: A registration is the first public date a home appears on the CQC register under a named provider. The register gives the date, the provider and the beds the location is registered for, which is the scale a medicines service to the home is set up for.
Check. Whether Simba Residential Care Limited is a provider you already supply, the distance from your pharmacy to Manchester M34, and the registration date against your own knowledge of when first admissions tend to begin.
Which changes matter to you
- New registrationThe first public date a home appears on the register under a named provider, with the beds it is registered for, which is the scale a medicines service is set up for.
- Provider changeA change of registered provider often brings the new provider's own supply contracts, and medicines supply is one of them.
- Bed changeA change in registered beds changes the scale of the medicines a home handles, dated to the register's file.
- Rating movementAn inspection looks at how medicines are managed. The rating is CQC's, reported as published, with its date.
Before you call
Three things to check first
Is the provider already a customer
The company number is on every alert, so the check is against your own records.
How many beds
The register's bed count, dated to its file.
How far is it
The home's address and a map link.
Questions
Common questions
Does it show which pharmacy supplies a home now?
No. Nothing in the public register does.
Can I choose only new homes and provider changes?
Yes. The classes are a setting.
What area does it cover?
England, because the CQC register is England only. You choose the territory that matches the ground you serve.
Can I use this for sales?
Yes. Alerts name companies, never people, and use the home's address only. Your own marketing rules still apply.
When does it start?
Today. Start the fourteen-day trial, verify your address, and the first briefing is prepared for your area. Nothing is charged.
The trial
Judge it on your own area for fourteen days
For fourteen days you receive your first briefing, then two weekly briefings, and priority changes inside your area on the day they reach us, as alerts or one daily digest. No card is taken, and nothing continues unless you choose it.
The fourteen days start when your first briefing is sent. CQC publishes the care register once a month, so some weeks carry a great deal and others carry nothing. An update with nothing in it says so and lists everything it checked.
Chris reads every first briefing himself.
Your trade
Also read for
- Care staffing and recruitmentA new home, or a home under a new provider, is a reason to ask about staffing.
- Catering and food supplyA new home or a change of provider is a dated reason to ask who runs the kitchen.
- Care softwareA change of provider is when software gets reviewed. The register shows the change and its date.