Care homes offer accommodation and personal care for people who generally aren't able to live independently. While a care provider can relate to anyone offering medical assistance, care home management typically refers to a management team that is responsible for both staff and patients in a care home.

Care homes can be publicly funded, run by local authorities or privately owned establishments. In all cases the Care Quality Commission (CQC) monitor, inspect and regulate all residential homes.

For Care Home Compliance the regulations used are specific to "Care Home services with nursing (CHN)" and "Care Home services without nursing (CHS)".

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) set out a series of documents regarding guidance for care providers (including Care Homes) that cover two groups of regulations:
1) Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009 (Part 4)
2) Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014

The CQC "standards of care" offers a transparent set of guidelines highlighting what good and outstanding care looks like. Within this framework, CQC has safeguards in place to ensure that services offered by care homes meet fundamental standards on an annual basis; below which patient care must never fall. It is the management team's responsibility to ensure that all processes are correctly followed and that all staff understand and abide by these requirements. Failure to do so may mean intervention by the CQC using powers assigned to them to take action against the offending culprits.

Aside from all the usual training courses that care providers may need to attend, the focus for management is on the development of staff and processes relating to maintaining a high level of CQC accreditation. Things like mentoring, complaints handling, administration of medicine, document handling, managing conflict and performance management are all administration related courses that work alongside patient centric training.