Both files are available below. Download the Integration Guide first, then the Governance Calendar — print the calendar at A2 for your governance office or project it at your next governance committee meeting.
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The guide opens with the full 9-gap × 6-key-question mapping matrix. This is the most important section to read before the chapters. It gives you the complete picture of where ISO 42001 and CQC Well-Led intersect — and where they don't. Mark the intersections most relevant to your current inspection preparation or AI governance programme and use those to prioritise which chapters to implement first.
The evidence gap analysis template (in the guide's appendix) allows you to self-assess your current position against all 6 consolidated artefacts before you start implementing. Complete this first — it tells you which artefacts you already have (partially or fully), which are absent, and which require the most urgent attention. Use the readiness scoring to prioritise your implementation sequence.
Print the calendar at A2 and display it in your governance office or governance team workspace. At your next governance committee meeting, project it and use it to anchor the annual planning session — assigning owners to each activity and setting the committee's standing agenda around the quarterly governance committee rhythm (Q1/Q2/Q3/Q4). The calendar is most valuable when it is visible and used operationally, not filed.
If you have a CQC inspection anticipated in the next 6 months, prioritise Chapters 1 (leadership accountability), 3 (risk assessment as Safe evidence), and 6 (human oversight) — the three chapters most likely to surface during a Well-Led deep dive. If you are building the programme from scratch with no immediate inspection pressure, implement in chapter order — the architecture builds sequentially and each chapter's artefacts feed subsequent ones.
Chapter 8 designs the quarterly governance committee AI review structure — the reporting format, the evidence items reviewed each quarter, and the improvement decision record. Present this chapter to the governance committee chair before implementing it, so the committee adopts the structure rather than having it imposed. Once the quarterly rhythm is adopted by the committee, the continual improvement loop is self-evidencing — it generates Well-Led improvement evidence automatically, every quarter.
Full sequencing guidance is in the guide's introduction. This summary maps chapters to implementation phases based on inspection risk priority and dependency order.