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HSC England March 2026 release notes

Introducing essential policy updates for England Community Care and England Residential Care.

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Written by Thalia Galloway
Updated this week

Welcome to the March 2026 policy updates. Please note policies are rapidly changing to a new format. This article was updated throughout March.


โ€‹What's new

The registration titles have been reviewed and extensively updated. The Key Points have been removed, as the Copilot skill can be used to request these. Quality Statements are evidenced clearly at the start of the policy, and a detailed Procedures section has been clearly separated out in the policies. For structured details on these policy updates, please see this>

Infection Prevention & Control

The policy content has been completely erased and re-entered to remove the rogue personalised fields that were appearing, e.g. [1.7].

The personalised field [criterion 9] has been replaced with standardised text.

Released 19/03/2026

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