Oxara Consulting carries out operational and regulatory due diligence for investors, lenders and buyers of CQC-regulated care services, establishing governance, staffing and remediation exposure before completion. Regulatory and operational risk in a care service is rarely visible in the accounts alone. Material liabilities may arise from governance, staffing, clinical systems, regulatory history and the practical operation of the service.
This due diligence establishes the service's regulatory, governance and operational position before acquisition, investment, lending, insolvency or restructuring decisions are made. It identifies matters that may affect registration continuity, operational viability, remediation requirements and the assumptions on which a transaction is based.
Each engagement is director-led, bringing together clinical, regulatory and operational expertise according to the scope and purpose of the instruction.
What This Covers
Service Operations & Governance
Assessment of governance, staffing, clinical systems, management arrangements and service operations, identifying weaknesses or dependencies that may affect operational stability or require post-transaction intervention.
Regulatory Risk Assessment
Review of regulatory history, current CQC position, enforcement activity, outstanding requirements and other evidence relevant to registration continuity and regulatory exposure.
Management & Registration Continuity
Assessment of registered-provider and management arrangements, key-person dependency and known continuity risks that may affect the operation or registration of the service through a transaction or restructuring.
Operational Viability & Remediation Exposure
Assessment of the operational condition of the service and the scale of identifiable remediation required, providing evidence relevant to transaction assumptions, integration planning and post-completion priorities.
Related Premises Due Diligence
Care Property Due Diligence
Where the instruction also requires assessment of the physical premises, Oxara provides a separate Care Property Due Diligence service examining premises suitability and regulatory readiness for care-property acquisitions, conversions, developments and recommissioning. It complements rather than replaces conventional surveying, valuation and technical due diligence.
How Oxara Consulting Serves Care-Sector Acquisitions, Investment, Lending, Insolvency and Restructuring
This service may be instructed by purchasers, investors, lenders, solicitors, corporate-finance advisers, insolvency and restructuring practitioners, prospective providers and other professional advisers who need to identify regulatory and operational risks in a care service before completion or funding decisions are made.
If a transaction, lending, investment or restructuring decision depends on the regulatory and operational position of a service, a director can discuss the scope, evidence requirements and timetable.
Discuss a Due Diligence MatterWorking with Professional Advisers
Oxara accepts direct due-diligence instructions and also works alongside appointed legal, financial, transaction, insolvency, property and other professional advisers where specialist regulated-care evidence is required.
Our role is to establish and report the clinical, operational and regulatory position relevant to the instruction. The scope, intended audience, reporting status and permitted use of the work are agreed at the outset.
The review is intended to identify regulatory and operational weaknesses that an incoming owner, investor or funder may otherwise discover only after completion or commitment of capital.
Oxara does not provide legal, accounting, tax, investment, valuation or surveying advice. Our work complements those disciplines by providing specialist regulated-care analysis within our own professional scope.
All engagements are subject to conflict and independence checks and are handled with professional confidentiality.
How due diligence instructions are handled
Each engagement begins with a conflict and independence check and confirmation of the decision the work must inform. The engagement letter defines the scope, instruction lead, evidence requirements, reporting format, intended audience, timetable and professional boundaries.
The evidence reviewed and conclusions reported are determined by the agreed scope. Where a separate premises assessment or another specialist workstream is required, this is identified and scoped separately.