In December 2014, the Department of Health published its review of the operation of Sections 135 and 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983. The report comes following CQC’s review of health-based places of safety earlier last year that police cells in England are being used because of a lack of health-based places of safety …
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CQC published ‘information’ for providers on the use of covert and overt surveillance on 16 December 2014. This article discusses that information, and explores some of the problems raised by it. The Information Published by CQC The document specifically states that it is not attempting to give ‘guidance’ or ‘legal advice’ to providers on whether …
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The new market oversight scheme, introduced in the Care Act 2014 (‘the Act’) and due to be introduced by the Care and Support (Market Oversight Criteria) Regulations 2014 (the ‘Regulations’), will create a new regulatory duty for CQC from 6 April 2015 to oversee and monitor the financial health of ‘difficult-to replace’ providers of adult …
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