Following the collapse of Southern Cross the Department of Health is making plans to put Monitor, the NHS economic regulator, in control of adult social care. Whilst bonds will required to protect against financial failure, councils could face public reprimand for paying below-cost rates to private operators so as to cross-subsidise in-house services. With concerns …
Under the new regulatory framework introduced by CQC, there has been a move away from the classic inspection as the main source of evidence about a service towards a broader “review of compliance” which considers all the available information relating to a particular service, of which the inspection or site visit is one element, assuming …
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