AuditReady.care vs Radar Healthcare — different problems, different tools
AuditReady.care and Radar Healthcare are both UK-sector compliance platforms, but they answer different questions. AuditReady.care is built around the Home Office sponsor licence — visas, SMS reportable events, Certificate of Sponsorship, right-to-work. Radar Healthcare is built around risk, incident reporting and CQC-aligned quality audits. Here is what each does, where they overlap, and how to decide. Operators of serious scale often run both.
Side-by-side
20 points of comparison| AuditReady.care | Radar Healthcare | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | Home Office sponsor licence | Risk, incident & quality management |
| Pricing | Published, £36–£150 per site / month | Custom quote (not published) |
| Sponsored worker records | Built-in | No |
| SMS reportable-event detection | With 10 / 20 WD deadline calc | No |
| Certificate of Sponsorship tracking | Yes | No |
| Right-to-work audit trail | Dated capture | No |
| Visa / BRP expiry alerts | 30-day amber + red | No |
| DBS / PVG tracking | Yes | Via general document records |
| Incident reporting & management | No | Flagship module |
| Risk register & risk assessments | No | Yes |
| CQC-aligned audits & action management | No | Yes |
| Policies & procedures module | No | Yes |
| Training / learning management | Training-record tracking only | LMS module |
| One-click Home Office audit packs | Per-worker PDF | No |
| Worker self-service portal | Document view & upload | Partial |
| Multi-site head-office view | Yes | Yes |
| Legislation watch | Weekly scan of gov.uk + CI guidance | Within policies module |
| UK / EU hosted | Supabase, London | Yes |
| Mandatory 2FA | Yes | Available |
| Setup fee | £234 per site, one-off | Varies with onboarding scope |
Which should you pick
Pick AuditReady.care if
You hold a Home Office Skilled Worker sponsor licence and sponsored-worker evidence is your live risk — visa expiries, SMS reportable events, CoS tracking, right-to-work re-checks. Or your most recent CQC / Care Inspectorate visit was good on quality and risk but flagged gaps on sponsored-worker files. Or you want transparent per-site pricing, not a sales call.
Pick Radar Healthcare if
Your main compliance workload is incident reporting, risk register upkeep and CQC-aligned quality audits. Or you've been asked by a regulator or an insurer to put a formal risk framework in place. Or you don't currently sponsor overseas workers, so the Home Office SMS duties don't apply to your operation.
Run both if
You hold a sponsor licence AND you're a CQC / Care Inspectorate-regulated provider at scale — these are two different compliance programmes against two different regulators (Home Office and CQC / CI). AuditReady.care doesn't duplicate Radar and Radar doesn't duplicate AuditReady.care. Multi-site groups often run both.
Pricing honesty
Radar Healthcare pricing isn’t published; it’s a modular enterprise platform (incident, risk, audit, policies, LMS) sold through a sales conversation, with price shaped by site count, module selection and seat count. In public write-ups from care-sector buyers it typically falls between £150 and £400 per site per month with modules included.
AuditReady.care is £36–£150 per site per month, published on the pricing page, every band includes the full product — nothing is sold as a separate module. One-off setup is £234 per site. No per-user cost. Monthly billing, no minimum term, full data export at any time.
Why this comparison is honest
We’re a sponsor-licence specialist, not a quality-management platform. We’re deliberately not trying to be Radar. If your pain is incidents and risk, Radar is older, bigger and does the job well. If your pain is sponsor-licence evidence, AuditReady.care is built around it — but we’ll be the first to say pick Radar if quality and risk are your actual compliance workload.
Frequently asked
- Can AuditReady.care replace Radar Healthcare?
- Only if you don't need incident reporting, a risk register and CQC-aligned audit workflows. AuditReady.care doesn't ship an incident-reporting module and doesn't maintain a CQC audit framework. If quality and risk management is your main compliance workload, Radar Healthcare is the right tool.
- Can Radar Healthcare replace AuditReady.care?
- Only if you don't hold a Home Office sponsor licence. Radar is strong on quality, risk and incidents, but doesn't track SMS reportable events, Certificates of Sponsorship, visa expiries or sponsored-worker document trails specifically.
- Do you integrate with Radar Healthcare?
- Not yet. The record shapes are different enough — AuditReady.care is per-worker and sponsor-duty-shaped, Radar is per-incident and risk-shaped — that an integration would need a specific use case to design against. Open to it if that case exists for your operation.
- What about Borderless, Lifted Talent or QCS?
- Those are the direct sponsor-licence comparisons. Borderless is an Immigration Advice Authority accredited platform covering licence applications, visa processing and compliance — see AuditReady.care vs Borderless. Lifted Talent is a six-stage hire-to-retain platform including AI-powered recruitment — see AuditReady.care vs Lifted Talent. QCS is a CQC policies and procedures platform — see AuditReady.care vs QCS. Radar overlaps with QCS on policies and audits more than it does with any of the sponsor-licence specialists.