Even the closest of observers of CQC might have missed its recent response to “Our next phase of regulation: consultation 2” where it sets out its intentions for regulating adult social care services. This response serves as a precursor to how it will regulate and inspect providers in the near future. CQC intends to change …
Advocacy and CQC Compliance It is important that service users in a care setting know about their rights and can stand up for them. Many people, especially those that are older or vulnerable, will require the assistance of an advocate to realise their rights and to ensure they can access the care and support services …
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Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has become the sixth health and social care provider and the first NHS Trust to be prosecuted by the Care Quality Commission (“CQC”) for failure to provide safe care and treatment. On 12 October 2017 the Trust was sentenced, and a fine of £125,000 was handed down (the Court’s starting …
Public bodies such as local authorities and regulatory bodies frequently make important decisions about vulnerable people and their rights to services in relation to their care. There is legal mechanism in place where providers can challenge the decisions of CQC via issuing judicial review proceedings. Recent years have shown that providers are no longer shying …
As would be expected, clients rarely come to those in my profession with their good news stories! What really shines out in the article is how staff are so enthusiastic about the service. This will no doubt have translated into a frontline commitment to make the service the best that it can be. While all …
The last few months have seen continued developments in the vexed question of payment for ‘sleeping rights’. We expressed doubts as to whether the issue was, really, still alive. We were wrong. A decision from the Employment Appeal Tribunal (the EAT) and vacillation from Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) have left the matter quite …
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The Care Quality Commission has recently published a report entitled ‘The State of Adult Social Care Service 2014 to 2017; Findings from CQC’s initial programme of comprehensive inspections in adult social care’. The report contains conclusions published by CQC between October 2014 and May 2017 of 33,000 inspections it had undertaken of adult social care …
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The provision of activities in care homes has long been on CQC’s radar. With the ever-increasing focus on person-centred care provision, it is more important than ever that providers take appropriate steps to ensure person-centred activities are provided to their residents on a daily basis. Whilst it is not explicitly mentioned in the Regulations, the …
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In the November/December publication of Healthcare Business, I presented a legal perspective on CQC decision-making in respect of new CQC registrations in the Learning Disability sector. The article referred to what was then the awaited CQC consultation on changes to its policy statement Registering the Right Support, the original version of which was published in …
Last month, solicitor Laura Paton explored the importance of revalidation in the eyes of Care Quality Commission. In this article, Nicole Ridgwell considers how the process of revalidation translates into the care home environment Revalidation replaced the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) post-registration education and practice (Prep) requirements in April 2016 as the mandatory route …
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