CQC and Monitor have agreed to strengthen its information sharing for the benefit of patients and to more effectively deliver its role. The formal agreement between the two bodies, outlines how the organisations will strengthen the way they work together or share information for the purpose of delivering safe, well-led and sustainable care for the …
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CQC are keen to seek the views of frontline care professionals working in health or social care. Draft guidance has been published today for all adult social care providers, partners and members of the public to have their say about CQC’s proposals setting out how its Market Oversight scheme could operate. Commenting on CQC’s draft …
The care sector is still reeling from the fallout from scandals such as Winterbourne View which exposed many negative care issues such as service users being admitted to hospitals when they should be catered for in their own homes or a care home and it is clear in the most recent Government report entitled Winterbourne …
Care Talk: New Offences created to protect service users Read More »
CQC has inspected your home. You wait to receive the draft report. You wait and you wait. You wait some more. Finally the draft report arrives and it is not good news, your rating is unfavourable. But your draft report has arrived three months after the inspection. Your Home is not the same as it …
Providers have been gearing up to a new regulatory regime for almost a year now and have been eased gently into the new era through an adapted system of rating and new style inspections which were implemented in October 2014. Providers will already be aware that their services will now be examined by CQC using …
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