diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7e721c8086..907e145505 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -106,19 +106,13 @@ run-uwsgi-async: link-development-env
 	WEB_SERVER_TYPE=uwsgi-async poetry run ./run_app.sh
 
 dev-compose-up:
-	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev-mac.yml pull eq-questionnaire-launcher
-	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev-mac.yml pull sds
-	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev-mac.yml pull cir
-	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev-mac.yml up -d
-
-dev-compose-up-linux:
-	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev-linux.yml up -d
+	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml pull eq-questionnaire-launcher
+	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml pull sds
+	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml pull cir
+	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml up -d
 
 dev-compose-down:
-	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev-mac.yml down
-
-dev-compose-down-linux:
-	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev-linux.yml down
+	docker compose -f docker-compose-dev.yml down
 
 profile:
 	poetry run python profile_application.py
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 73dd4050a2..fcf50cc66c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,7 +11,21 @@
 
 ## Run with Docker
 
-Install Docker for your system: [https://www.docker.com/](https://www.docker.com/)
+Install [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) for your system. Make sure that you've installed both docker and docker-compose packages, preferably using Homebrew:
+
+``` shell
+brew install docker
+brew install docker-compose
+```
+On MacOS install container runtimes, eg. [Colima](https://github.com/abiosoft/colima):
+```shell
+brew install colima
+```
+
+Make sure Colima is started every time you want to use Docker images:
+```shell
+colima start
+```
 
 To get eq-questionnaire-runner running the following command will build and run the containers
 
@@ -141,7 +155,7 @@ Runner requires five supporting services - a questionnaire launcher, a storage b
 
 #### Run supporting services with Docker
 
-To run the app locally, but the supporting services in Docker, run:
+To run the app locally, but the supporting services in Docker, make sure you have Docker and Colima installed [from this step](#run-with-docker), then run:
 
 ``` shell
 make dev-compose-up
@@ -158,7 +172,7 @@ make dev-compose-up-linux
 ##### [Questionnaire launcher](https://github.com/ONSDigital/eq-questionnaire-launcher)
 
 ``` shell
-docker run -e SURVEY_RUNNER_SCHEMA_URL=http://docker.for.mac.host.internal:5000 -e SDS_API_BASE_URL=http://docker.for.mac.host.internal:5003 -e CIR_API_BASE_URL=http://docker.for.mac.host.internal:5004 -it -p 8000:8000 onsdigital/eq-questionnaire-launcher:latest
+docker run -e SURVEY_RUNNER_SCHEMA_URL=http://host.docker.internal:5000 -e SDS_API_BASE_URL=http://host.docker.internal:5003 -e CIR_API_BASE_URL=http://host.docker.internal:5004 -it -p 8000:8000 onsdigital/eq-questionnaire-launcher:latest
 ```
 
 ##### [Mock Supplementary data service](https://github.com/ONSDigital/eq-runner-mock-sds)
diff --git a/docker-compose-dev-mac.yml b/docker-compose-dev-mac.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 9312153355..0000000000
--- a/docker-compose-dev-mac.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-services:
-    datastore:
-        image: knarz/datastore-emulator
-        networks:
-            - eq-env
-        ports:
-            - "8432:8432"
-
-    redis:
-        image: redis:4
-        networks:
-            - eq-env
-        ports:
-            - "6379:6379"
-
-    eq-questionnaire-launcher:
-        image: "onsdigital/eq-questionnaire-launcher:latest"
-        environment:
-            SURVEY_RUNNER_URL: http://localhost:5000
-            SURVEY_RUNNER_SCHEMA_URL: http://docker.for.mac.host.internal:5000
-            SDS_API_BASE_URL: http://docker.for.mac.host.internal:5003
-            CIR_API_BASE_URL: http://docker.for.mac.host.internal:5004
-        networks:
-            - eq-env
-        restart: always
-        ports:
-            - "8000:8000"
-
-    sds:
-        image: "onsdigital/eq-runner-mock-sds:latest"
-        networks:
-            - eq-env
-        restart: always
-        ports:
-            - "5003:5003"
-
-    cir:
-        image: "onsdigital/eq-runner-mock-cir:latest"
-        networks:
-            - eq-env
-        restart: always
-        ports:
-            - "5004:5004"
-
-networks:
-    eq-env:
-        driver: bridge
diff --git a/docker-compose-dev-linux.yml b/docker-compose-dev.yml
similarity index 100%
rename from docker-compose-dev-linux.yml
rename to docker-compose-dev.yml