Care providers often come to us with concerns they face with local authorities failing to meet the cost of providing care at the standard that providers themselves deem necessary to maintain compliance with the regulations. Providers complain of being largely ignored by those in charge of making such decisions within the local authority and many …
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The CQC makes judgements about the quality of the services it inspects by following its own processes. Some questions whether the regulator is justified in making such judgements. A recent case of note against the CQC, which is presently going through the courts, succeeded in part. It found that there was a case to answer …
Many health and social care providers decide to engage with CQC in the spirit of cooperation and collaboration. They accept the ratings awarded to them by CQC and they accept CQC’s findings and don’t challenge them as they are not confident that their efforts will lead to successfully changing CQC’s position. This lack of challenge …
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We only have sound bites at present in respect of how those in Government will seek to alleviate the pressures across social care and there are indeed a great number of pressures that need to be addressed. The suggestion that the Government will pay social care providers to accept discharges from hospital who may not …
I have worked with many healthcare providers who can be described at times as adopting a collaborative approach when interacting with regulators. This can of course go one of two ways and is dependent on which regulator but more importantly which individual is tasked with dealing with the case on the regulators’ behalf. The regulator’s …
The CQC is in the process of developing the way in which it regulates GPs. There will be a move to a dynamic assessment of GPs and a move to a single assessment framework. This new way of regulating the sector is designed to make regulation less complicated and more transparent for the CQC itself, …
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Since August 2016 the CQC has had decisions it has made in respect of the registration of health and social care providers appealed 55 times before the First Tier Tribunal (Care Standards). Of those 55 occasions, only four appeals have been successful. This translates to a ‘success rate’ of 92%. This figure should come with …
Challenging the CQC can be a daunting prospect for GP practices, especially given that the GPs and their practice managers are so busy. Interactions with the CQC can be laborious and require focus to address and respond to the plethora of enforcement action the regulator has at its disposal. However, it is important that practices …
CQC announced its new strategy on how it will regulate the health and social care sector in the years to come recently. It is light on detail but does provide a framework upon which CQC’s future action will align. CQC attempts, in its strategy, to address the imbalance on its over-emphasis on enforcement to the …
CQC has the ability to prosecute providers criminally for breaches of certain regulations with the one most commonly used being the failure to provide safe care and treatment (Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities Regulations 2014: Regulation 12); but in addition harm or risk of harm must be proved. Prosecutions that progress through …
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