Have unpaid carers noticed any difference since the Care Act came into force? When the Care Act 2014 came into force on 1 April 2015 it was heralded as the most significant change in social care law for 60 years. One of the headline changes it introduced was, for the first time, putting those providing …
At present, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspects approximately 10% of providers of primary care dental services. Unlike the other sectors they regulate, CQC do not presently give ratings to primary dental care services. However, the report of their inspection will be published on the CQC website and CQC have enforcement powers available to them …
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On 24 May, CQC published its strategy for 2016-2021 called Shaping the future (a link to the document can be found here: http://www.cqc.org.uk/content/our-strategy-2016-2021). There is much that is encouraging in the document as far as the care home sector is concerned, notably that CQC will focus its efforts “where risks of poor care are greatest” …
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Health Education England (HEE) has now concluded its consultation, “Building capacity to care and capability to treat – a new team member for health and social care” and confirmed that it will be proceeding with plans to introduce nursing associates into the healthcare sector. The new Nursing Associate role is a potentially radical addition to …
As previously reported in DDN, the July 2015 implementation of new comprehensive CQC inspections has brought significant regulatory change to the substance misuse sector. Feedback from the frontline is that this first inspection cycle has been predictably challenging. The repeated concern that providers raise with us is not however the imposition of different standards from …
Heralded as “the biggest change to the law in 60 years”, the Care Act was designed to move the spotlight from councils providing prescriptive, template services to a more nuanced approach in which an individual’s care and support provision was reflected in a bespoke package tailored to their needs. The ‘no decision about me without …
At Ridouts, we have noticed increased scrutiny on the part of the Care Quality Commission in relation to end of life care, of which DNAR decision-making is a key element. In our experience, there is often a lack of awareness about the requirements that need to be followed by practitioners in relation to DNAR decision-making …
Q: What does ‘treatment is a condition of the provision of the accommodation’ mean? If treatment is provided but is voluntary and freely given, with no local authority/NHS involvement, and specifically excluded as a legal condition of residence in the tenancy/contract/licence what then? Within scope or not? A: According to CQC’s ‘Scope of Registration’ (August …
In its updated version of the Provider Handbook for ‘Residential adult social care services’ April 2016, CQC has clarified the position on re-inspection timeframes. The previous wording having been somewhat ambiguous, the new handbook confirms that services rated overall ‘inadequate’ (and therefore automatically subject to the Special Measures regime) “will normally have a comprehensive inspection …
In the first week of June 2016, CQC published 85 reports on inspections of GP practices. In this most recent tranche, 80% have been found to be Good or Outstanding; reflecting the general statistical trends in ratings since CQC started inspecting GP practices in October 2014. Since that time, only around 100 practices have been …
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