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Catriona Eglinton: no photograph is held, so the Care Quality Commission (CQC) monogram is shown instead.
Regulator

Catriona Eglinton

Deputy Director of Adult Social Care (Kent), Care Quality Commission (CQC)

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Quoted in the press, across 1 topic since 24 Apr 2026

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Catriona Eglinton: key facts

Kind of voice
Regulator
Role
Deputy Director of Adult Social Care (Kent)
Organisation
Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Quoted on
Care home closures & provider failure
Press coverage
Quoted in the press
Most recently quoted
5 Aug 2026
First quoted
24 Apr 2026

03  Profile

Who Catriona Eglinton is

Catriona Eglinton is described in CQC press releases as the Care Quality Commission's deputy director of adult social care in Kent. The CQC is the independent regulator of health and social care in England.

In this role she gives the regulator's public comment on inspection outcomes for Kent care services, including care homes and home care agencies. Her quoted comments cover services upgraded to outstanding and services rated inadequate and placed in special measures. She has also commented on enforcement action, including a Chatham service closed after repeated inadequate ratings.

Earlier CQC coverage describes her as deputy director of operations in London.

04  The signal · where Catriona Eglinton sits on care home closures & provider failure

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One of the voices most often quoted in the press on care home closures & provider failure.

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  1. Professor Martin Green OBE portraitProfessor Martin Green OBESector leaderChief Executive, Care EnglandLeading
  2. Mario Kreft MBE portraitMario Kreft MBESector leaderOwner, Pendine Park Care Organisation (retired as Chair of Care Forum Wales and the Wales Care Awards in September 2026)Leading
  3. Catriona EglintonRegulatorDeputy Director of Adult Social Care (Kent), Care Quality Commission (CQC)Leading
  4. Nikkie PhippsRegulatorAssistant Director for Care Services, Westmorland and Furness CouncilLeading
  5. Lauren ByrneSector leaderSenior Policy and Campaigns Adviser, Royal College of PhysiciansLeading
  6. Matthew JonesSector leaderdivisional director for Wiltshire at The Orders of St John Care TrustLeading

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05  On the record · press

What Catriona Eglinton has said

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  • kentlive.news
  • bbc.co.uk
  • kentonline.co.uk

Where Catriona Eglinton has been quoted

  1. Kent care home shut down by inspectors after 'deeply concerning' failureskentlive.news · 5 Aug 2026
  2. Kent care home set to close following damning report highlighting 'racial abuse'kentlive.news · 5 Jun 2026
  3. ‘Deteriorating’ care home to close after second damning inspection uncovers ‘racial abuse by staff’kentonline.co.uk · 5 Jun 2026
  4. The White House Care Home in Chatham closed by CQCbbc.co.uk · 24 Apr 2026

How we found the articles that name Catriona Eglinton: we searched news for these terms.

  • care home closure
  • provider failure
  • residential care closure
  • care home insolvency
  • care home fees
  • care home places
  • care market
  • market sustainability

Also searched with “care home closure” in each of 8 national papers, and in the Guardian by editor tag, and in trade press by category. Every term for Care home closures & provider failure

Verbatim

“When our inspectors visited The Chase, we found a service where poor leadership had allowed a closed culture to develop. It was also a culture where people's basic rights to dignity and safety weren't being upheld, and where the same concerns we'd identified at our previous inspection still hadn't been addressed.”
CQC deputy director of adult social care in Kent · Care home closures & provider failure · kentlive.news · 5 Aug 2026 · Read the article
“When we returned to Rock House, we were concerned to find a further deterioration in the quality of care being provided. The poor culture we found at our last inspection, where staff at all levels weren't making safe, compassionate care their priority, had not been addressed by leaders.”
CQC deputy director of adult social care in Kent · Care home closures & provider failure · kentlive.news · 5 Jun 2026 · Read the article
“When we returned to Rock House, we were concerned to find a further deterioration in the quality of care being provided. The poor culture we found at our last inspection, where staff at all levels weren't making safe, compassionate care their priority, had not been addressed by leaders.”
CQC deputy director of adult social care in Kent · Care home closures & provider failure · kentonline.co.uk · 5 Jun 2026 · Read the article
“It's always a last resort for CQC to take action which results in a place people call home closing.”
CQC deputy director of adult social care in Kent · Care home closures & provider failure · bbc.co.uk · 24 Apr 2026 · Read the article

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06  Sources

References for this biography

  1. CQC rates Folkestone Home Care as outstanding - Care Quality Commission. CQC press release naming her as CQC deputy director of adult social care in Kent. It also shows her commenting on an upgrade to an outstanding rating.
  2. CQC takes action to protect people at Maidstone nursing home - Care Quality Commission. Her comment on the downgrade of Pilgrims Way Care Home with Nursing in Maidstone from good to inadequate, with special measures.
  3. CQC takes action to protect people supported by Domiciliary Care Experts in Gillingham - Care Quality Commission. Her comment on a Gillingham home care agency rated inadequate and kept in special measures. The page also describes the CQC as the independent regulator of health and social care in England.
  4. Bright Brains Global Limited in Chatham closed down after second 'inadequate' rating by Care Quality Commission. Press coverage quoting her as CQC deputy director of adult social care in Kent on the closure of Bright Brains after its provider withdrew an appeal.
  5. Home care agency Curant Care Maidstone rated 'inadequate' by Care Quality Commission. KentOnline coverage quoting her in her Kent role on an inadequate rating for a Maidstone home care agency.
  6. CQC takes action to protect people at Hillingdon care home - Care Quality Commission. An earlier CQC press release naming her as CQC deputy director of operations in London.

Named officials of regulators, arms-length bodies and public agencies such as the CQC, NHS England or a local authority association. Citations are counted by an automated scan of UK press coverage and may be incomplete. Roles, biographies and contact details are researched and human-reviewed before they appear here; anything not yet reviewed is simply absent rather than shown unverified. This profile was last updated on 3 Nov 2026. See the methodology for how this page is built, or email contact@bridgeheadcommunications.com to correct anything on it.