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OpenDoc for care homes

Care home policies and procedures, written by named experts and ready for every shift

500+ policies and procedures, each written by a named expert and signed off by at least three. Kept current when guidance changes, tailored to your home, and answered out loud for any member of staff, in 51 languages, day or night.

  • Free plan, or £70 + VAT a month per home with unlimited users
  • No long-term contract. Cancel any time
  • Free, fully managed setup, including your existing policies
500+policies and procedures in the library
100+named experts, including former CQC inspectors
3expert sign-offs, at least, on every policy
51languages staff can ask in and hear answers in
£70a month per home, any number of staff

Built for how care homes actually work

Care home policies usually live in a folder, or a shared drive, that nobody opens at 3am. OpenDoc puts them where staff are, in a form they can use, and gives managers the evidence inspectors ask for.

Night shifts and weekends

Answers when no manager is on site

Any member of staff can ask a question on their phone, by typing or speaking, and get an answer drawn from your home’s own approved policies.

A multilingual workforce

Answers in the language staff know best

Skills for Care estimates that nearly 30% of England’s adult social care workforce had a non-British nationality in 2024/25. OpenDoc answers questions in 51 languages, spoken or typed.

Agency and new staff

Unlimited users, so everyone is covered

Add agency workers, bank staff and new starters at no extra cost. The price is per home, not per person.

Guidance keeps changing

Alerts when CQC, NICE or Care Act guidance changes

Experts check each change. You see the new version beside your own and choose to accept it or keep yours, so your home’s tailoring is never overwritten.

“Show us it’s tailored”

Every change recorded and comparable

Policies fill in your home’s name, contacts and terms, such as “resident”. Every edit is recorded, and any two versions can be compared side by side.

“How do you know staff read it?”

Evidence beyond a tick-box

See which policies and sections staff view and what they ask about, so you can show engagement and spot where your team needs support.

A shift with OpenDoc

An illustration of how the features fit together in a care home.

  1. 02:40A night carer is unsure of the procedure after a resident’s fall. She asks OpenDoc out loud, in her first language, and hears the steps from your home’s own falls policy.
  2. 08:15The manager sees that falls questions have come up several times this month, and books a refresher for the night team.
  3. 11:00OpenDoc flags a change in national guidance. The manager compares the updated library policy with the home’s version and accepts the change.
  4. 14:30An inspector asks how policies are kept current. The manager shows the version history, review dates and who approved each version.

Policies written by people who have run and inspected care homes

Every OpenDoc policy shows the named expert who wrote it, and at least three experts sign it off before it is published. The experts include former CQC inspectors, registered managers, clinicians and leaders of Outstanding-rated services. Care providers also donate policies they already use, including the full library of PossAbilities, rated Outstanding by the CQC, and donated policies pass the same sign-off.

Meet all the experts

What the CQC expects, and how OpenDoc helps you show it

The CQC says every policy must be “unique and tailored to your business”, and expects registered providers to keep policies current, secure and acted on. OpenDoc does not replace your judgement, and the CQC does not approve any policy library. What it does is make each requirement easier to meet, and easier to prove: tailored versions with a full history, review dates and owners, alerts when guidance changes, and evidence of how staff use your policies.

See the CQC’s policy requirements in full

One price per home, however many staff you have

£70 + VAT a month per home

Unlimited users and unlimited AI use, with no long-term contract. The library itself is free to use.

A worked example. A care home with 80 staff pays £70 + VAT a month for OpenDoc, and the same if it grows to 120. For comparison, one per-user product, Access Policies and Procedures, starts at £2.75 per user a month, which for 80 staff is £220 a month before any volume discount. A group of five homes pays £350 + VAT a month for OpenDoc.

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Everything a care home gets with OpenDoc

  • 500+ policies and procedures, written by named experts
  • At least three expert sign-offs on every policy
  • A starter set chosen for your region and care setting
  • Policies that fill in your home’s name, contacts and terms
  • Upload your own policies as PDFs or photos
  • One-click rewrite into a consistent template
  • Alerts when CQC, NICE or Care Act guidance changes
  • Side-by-side comparison of every version
  • Accept a library update or keep your own version
  • Owners, review dates, overdue status and weekly reminders
  • AI answers from your own policies, typed or spoken
  • Answers in 51 languages
  • Works on staff phones
  • Evidence of which sections staff read and what they ask
  • Several homes managed together, choosing which policies apply where
  • All four UK nations: CQC, Care Inspectorate, CIW and RQIA
  • Unlimited users and unlimited AI use
  • Free, fully managed setup
  • No long-term contract
  • ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus and NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit standards met

Care planning, daily records, risk and incident management, training, audits and mock inspections are available through Health Connect’s wider care platform, alongside OpenDoc.

Getting started takes three steps

Set up for free

We set up your home for you, at no cost, including uploading the policies you already have.

Tailor your policies

Start from a set chosen for your care setting and region, with your home’s details filled in, then adapt and approve each one.

Give every member of staff access

Add your whole team, including agency and night staff, and they can ask questions from day one.

Frequently asked questions

Will OpenDoc make our care home CQC compliant?

No software can do that on its own, and the CQC does not approve any policy library. OpenDoc gives you expert-written policies to tailor to your home, records every change so you can show what you tailored, and shows which policies staff read and what they ask about, which is evidence inspectors look for.

Can we keep our existing policies?

Yes. Upload them as PDFs or photos. Staff can ask the AI about them straight away, and one click rewrites any policy into a consistent template. The free, fully managed setup can do this for you.

Can night staff and agency staff use it?

Yes. Users are unlimited, so you can add every member of staff, including agency workers, and they can use OpenDoc on their phones at any hour.

How much does OpenDoc cost for a care home?

The library is free to use. The Organisation plan is £70 + VAT a month per care home, with unlimited users and unlimited AI use, and no long-term contract.

Do you cover care homes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?

Yes. OpenDoc covers all four UK nations, and new services get a starter set of policies chosen for their region and care setting.

Is our data secure?

Health Connect holds ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus certification, and meets the NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit standards.

Give your team policies they can find, understand and use

Start free today, or book a demo to see OpenDoc with your own policies.