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CQCs New Regulatory Model Set To Be Introduced In Spring 2023, What Will Be Changing?

Many will now be aware that the CQC is set to switch to a new regulatory model. This will impact how the regulator conducts inspections on health and social care providers. It is proposed that the new regulatory model will be implemented from Spring 2023. The updated model will feature a new data driven approach, …

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CQC Hot Topic – Providers Under Scrutiny for Staffing Records

Articles & Publications / By Samantha Burges

Over recent months we have noticed an increase in Providers being criticised by the CQC in relation to compliance with regulatory requirements related to staff recruitment records. This can lead to regulatory breaches being referenced in inspection reports which can limit a Provider’s CQC rating. What do the Regulations say? Regulation 19 of the Health …

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The CQC And Its Move Towards Imposing Conditions On Registration

Articles & Publications / By Anna Lemmer

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the CQC introduced a risk-based inspection model and focused its inspection activity where service users were deemed to be at risk of harm. Since the introduction of this risk-based system, we have seen an overall increase in the CQC’s enforcement action. This has also been confirmed by the CQC’s Chief Executive Ian …

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How The CQC Will Score Practices Under Its New Regulatory Approach

Articles & Publications / By Ridouts Solicitors

The CQC is changing its approach to how it regulates GP practices. My colleague, Gemma Nicholas, recently wrote an article outlining the CQC’s new strategy and regulatory approach and what this might mean for practices. The CQC has released further detail on how it intends to assess providers within its new regulatory model; including its …

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Update on the CQC’s New Regulatory Approach – Inspection Frequency, Evidence Gathering and the New Rating System

News / By Samantha Burges

The CQC has recently published further information on its new regulatory approach, most notably in relation to the frequency of assessment, how it will gather evidence and its new scoring system for reaching ratings. Frequency of assessment Assessment frequency will be dependent on the information the CQC receives and the evidence it collects about a …

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Notices of Decision – Using the Appeal Process to your Advantage

Articles & Publications / By Jennifer Durbin

It is always worrying when you receive a letter from the CQC that states it has decided to cancel your registration, suspend your registration, or impose conditions on your registration, which in effect, will prevent you as a provider from conducting business. At Ridouts we have received numerous calls from panicked providers about the effects …

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Is the CQC Too Negative?

Articles & Publications / By Jennifer Durbin

Research by Care Home Professional has revealed that in the last five years there has been an increasing number of health and social care providers rated as Requires Improvement and Inadequate. Care Home Professional analysed CQC data and found the following: The total number of total ratings have nearly halved from 2019 (pre-pandemic) to 2020 …

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Internal Unrest at the CQC

News / By Jennifer Durbin

CQC’s own staff are fearful of voicing their opinions on the CQC’s new regulatory approach due to a closed-culture attitude. In 2021 the CQC revealed a new regulatory approach, stating that it wanted to drop scheduled inspections in favour of a “more flexible, targeted approach”, using data and other insights in an effort to provide …

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Controlled Drugs – How Providers can Control the Consequences

Articles & Publications, The Ridout Report / By Jennifer Durbin

The Care Quality Commission (“CQC”) reports annually on its oversight findings to ensure that healthcare providers maintain a safe environment for the management and use of controlled drugs under the Controlled Drugs (Supervision of Management and Use) Regulations 2013 (“CDSMU Regulations”). As part of this, the CQC published, ‘The safer management of controlled drugs: Annual …

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