There is a risk with any regulator that its senior management comes to see its role as wider than its actual statutory base permits. Sadly, it is a condition that currently afflicts the Care Quality Commission in the way it is making registration decisions in the learning disability and autism sector. Outwith its jurisdiction, CQC …
A Government spokesmen has revealed that between 1 January 2015 and 7 November 2016, 312 care homes were in breach of CQC’s own regulations on hydration and nutrition. David Mowat, a minister for health revealed the figures to the Commons in a parliamentary answer to a question put to the department. The figures suggest that …
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CQC has opened a public consultation regarding its proposed fee increases for providers of health and social care. The proposed fee increases are designed to ensure that CQC will be in a position to collect the full cost of carrying out its regulatory functions from providers over the course of the next two to four …
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The Competition and Markets Authority- tasked with promoting competition for consumers in the UK- will review the care home market in the UK to assess whether residents of care homes are being treated fairly. This review comes in the wake of reports that residents are being charged for a variety of unexpected reasons without proper …
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Sir Michael Wilshaw will say today in his final report before stepping down this month that there is an increasing divide between performance across phases and geographically. He states that throughout the country the vast majority of primary schools are performing well; but the issue lies mainly with secondary schools where there are large areas …
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