Something we have been noticing at Ridouts recently is confusion over whether or not providers need to register as a care home. This has been prominent in the context of homecare/domiciliary care agency providers that are part of supported living schemes with local authorities and may assist service users with finding accommodation. Registered Activities – …
The Care Quality Commission’s (“CQC”) use of enforcement action, namely notices of proposal (“NOP”) and notices of decision (“NOD”), to either vary or cancel a provider’s registration is a fairly routine practice for providers who are perceived to have breached regulation(s) under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (“Regulations”). The …
If Your CQC Registration Is Dormant, CQC May Cancel It Read More »
The Government is presently consulting on new regulations aimed at granting the Care Quality Commission (“CQC”) additional authority to oversee and enforce visitation arrangements by care providers. This comes amid concerns that there are continued instances where visitors are unfairly denied access to their loved ones. The proposed regulations would impose a legal obligation on …
In January 2023, in recognition of the pressures faced by the NHS during the winter, the CQC published its ‘Response to winter pressures’ which involved the CQC adjusting its regulatory activity to, “enable health and social care staff to carry on providing safe, high-quality care over winter months in the face of existing pressures”. As a …
An Update In Relation To The CQC’s Registration Service Read More »
Our lawyers have been engaged in supporting Health and Care providers with their relationships with regulators for many years. Over the last 20 years there has been a steady increase in the regularity and intensity of regulator intrusion into care provision businesses. Whilst those businesses face many of the same challenges and operational issues as …
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At Ridouts we are frequently seeing that the CQC is automatically adopting Notices of Proposal, seemingly ignoring, or not testing the validity of, the representations submitted by Providers. In some cases the CQC is sending out Notices of Decision months after the Notice of Proposal was issued and therefore months and months, in some cases …
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Any person (individual, partnership or organisation) providing a regulated activity in England must be registered with CQC. Completing registration application forms can be quite an onerous task. Providers are required to complete a comprehensive application form detailing the kind of service that they wish to provide, where it will be provided and who will be …
The CQC has provided an update on the care homes deemed to have the required arrangements in place which it believes are suitable to accept people that have been discharged from hospital with COVID-19. There are a little over 3,000 approved beds of this nature across the country, which is clearly positive and means that …
CQC update on designated settings for people discharged from hospital with COVID-19 Read More »
It can happen and does happen. The CQC can cancel your registration. It could be one location, it could be your entire registration. The CQC might stop you from trading by a number of means: asking a magistrate court to cancel your registration with immediate effect; serving a piece of paper on you urgently which …
What if the CQC tries to cancel your registration? Read More »
On 18 September 2020, the Government published its ‘Covid-19 Winter Plan 2020 to 2021’ setting out the national support for the adult social care sector in England to curb the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19). It contains a number of support measures and is accompanied by a welcome commitment to provide over £500million of additional funding …
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