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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At the March 2017 CQC Board Meeting the consultation on ‘Registering the Right Support’ guidance was highlighted by a Board member as a document setting “out very specific conditions under which [CQC] would register housing for people with learning disabilities so there couldn’t be more than…five or six people in a unit. [CQC] said you …
New versions of CQC guidance on “Disclosure of Information to Providers” and “Sharing Information” reveal a worrying shift in CQC’s stance regarding disclosure of inspection notes to providers. In relation to such requests, the 2015 Sharing Information guidance stated: “Providers may consider that they need to receive this information from CQC in order to be …
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Over the past year, one topic is a regular feature when substance misuse providers meet at conferences, at training events, and in the waiting rooms of law firms; that their CQC inspection reports are peppered with negative commentary. This commentary, according to providers, does not address their core services but the more tangential and arguably …
This month I will draw together some operational themes showing trends in practice, in regulation, commissioning and staffing. All of these combine to make a providers’ task more difficult. Regulation CQC and other regulators grow in power. Government encourages the regulator to believe that their judgments are beyond the prospect of error. Senior staff at …
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CQC are and have, for some time, been pressing the Department of Health for a change in regulation to allow it to publish information about enforcement action it has taken which “forced improvement”. This was discussed at the CQC December 2016 Board Meeting where concern was expressed that CQC could not publish information about enforcement …
Healthcare Business- Trial by Media – providers’ reputations are at risk Read More »
2016 has been the year of social media. From the Brexit referendum to the US Election, the last 12 months have borne witness to the increasing tendency for political and social debate to be conducted through the medium of Twitter hashtags and Facebook posts. It is unsurprising, therefore, that healthcare professionals are being reminded of …
Under plans released just before the 2016 Christmas break, CQC set out its broad plans to revise the way that it performs its obligations from April 2017 onwards in the form of a consultation document on its next phase of regulation. The approach towards taking regulatory action where providers fall beneath the requirements set out …
At its most recent board meeting, CQC discussed its wish to persuade the Department of Health to amend existing legislation to enable it to “demonstrate when it has forced positive action” from providers. Currently the CQC is not permitted to publish information on any enforcement action being taken against a provider until that action has …
Ridout Report – CQC’s proposals put providers’ reputations at risk Read More »
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