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policy and procedure library

Thank you to the people who built it and continue to update it.

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Registered managers, current and former CQC inspectors, dietitians, frontline carers, care consultants, commissioners and people with lived experience came together to share their knowledge.

Their names appear on every policy they write or review. The credit for this resource belongs to them.
The OpenDoc Experts

When OpenDoc was just an idea, something new, untested and unknown, care experts chose to step forward.

They gave their time, expertise and experience freely, not because they had to, but because they believed care deserved something better.

Faced with a shared challenge, they chose collaboration over competition, turning individual goodwill into collective action.

What we’re building together is bigger than a library of policies. We’re creating a legacy of shared knowledge, generosity and progress that will help shape the future of social care for generations to come.

The Founding Council

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The Founding Council comprises the first 31 people entrusted with setting the standards for OpenDoc. They determine three things that matter most:

Who can join as an expert?
What evidence is good enough to publish?
How are policies credentialed and reviewed?

This was formalised on 28 October 2026 at an event hosted in the House of Commons.

Health Connect built the platform. The Founding Council sets the standards it answers to. Every member is named, and every decision is recorded and made public.

Built by the Care Community, for the Care Community.

Frustrated by care providers paying thousands every year just to access the policies and procedures they need,
over 100 care experts came together to build a library that’s free for everyone to access.

Watch the video below to hear from some of the experts behind OpenDoc.

The first and only expert-verified policy library for care

No more panic-buying policies.
No more paying thousands for generic documents.

Just policies that are up to date, expert-reviewed and trusted.

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Free to explore. Built to run a service.

Explore the library for free. When you’re ready to manage policies across your organisation, OpenDoc gives you the tools to do it.
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Explore the full policy library at no cost.

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Manage policies across your organisation with AI-powered tools.

* Adopt policies for your service.
* Track what staff have read and the questions they’ve asked.
* Keep track of policy changes with version history.
* Use OpenDoc Voice in 51 languages.
* Unlimited users, with no contract.

Smart Care Records

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Care Planning

Integrated with incident reports, risk assessments, daily records, vitals, and more, enabling AI to suggest care plans and relevant topics, saving hours (or weeks) of work.
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Risk Management

Real-time risk flags so nothing slips through the cracks.
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Daily notes

Capture notes faster with speech-to-text and generate AI handover summaries in minutes.
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Task Management

Coordinate care and collaborate seamlessly, wherever your team is working with AI-Suggested Care Plan Tasks

Patient Portal

Trust through transparency. Patients and families stay informed with instant access to records, appointments, and care updates.

Incident Management

Create reports faster and review them better with AI-powered summaries.

Referral Management

Track, qualify referrals, and secure funding with clarity and speed.

Audit Hub

A single source of truth giving managers confident oversight across their entire service.

Policy Management

Bring expert-verified policies to life, delivering the right guidance at the point of care, when teams actually need it.