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Reintroducing Joint Targeted Area Inspections – What Providers Need to Know

The Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (“Ofsted”), the Care Quality Commission (“CQC”) and HM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (“HMICFRS”) announced on 28 March 2022 that they will restart their joint targeted area inspections (“JTAI”) programme. Programme JTAIs are carried out under S.20 of the Children Act 2004 …

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A Shift In Culture – The key to avoiding Risk-Based Inspections

Articles & Publications / By Maddi Gaunt

Over 50% of CQC inspections in Adult Social Care are currently triggered by “information of concern” and providers should take note that over 55% of these “risk based” inspections have resulted in a rating of Requires Improvement or Inadequate. Providers should therefore be very wary of any “Information of concern”, which is not limited to …

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CQC’s New Strategy – What does it say and how will it be implemented?

Articles & Publications, The Ridout Report / By Samantha Burges

On 27 May 2021 the CQC launched its new strategy outlining how it plans to change and transform to deliver more effective regulation. While the strategy sets out various high level themes, little is said about how the strategy will actually be implemented and how it could impact registered providers on a day to day …

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Infection Prevention Control and the CQC – for Care Home Professional

Articles & Publications / By Anna Lemmer

In August 2020, CQC introduced specific Infection Prevention Control (“IPC”) inspections. IPC continues to be a current ‘hot topic’ of interest to CQC and it tends to be inspected under Regulation 12 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and assessed as part of CQC’s key question, ‘Is your service …

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Update on CQC’s regulatory approach

News / By Gemma Nicholas

On 24 March 2021 the three Chief Inspectors published a joint statement about the CQC’s future approach. In the statement they outline changes that will take effect from April 2021, and what they mean for providers from all sectors. The main message from the statement is that the CQC will continue to respond to risk …

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Letters of Intent – A serious threat from the CQC – as published in Caring Times

Articles & Publications / By Paul Ridout

Over the past 2 to 3 years we have witnessed an increasing distaste from the CQC for any form of challenge to their decisions in relation to care services. Added to this the CQC have shown a strong preference to follow registration and enforcement action based on their own devised practices and procedures rather than …

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CQC publishes its review of DNACPR decisions during COVID-19

News / By Laura P. Shelton

The CQC has today published its review and recommendations following the special review it conducted into concerns that ‘do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ (DNACPR) decisions were being applied to groups of people, rather than taking into account each person’s individual circumstances during the COVID- 19 pandemic. Concerns included that that DNACPR decisions were being made …

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Our GP Practice has received a Section 31 Letter of Intent from CQC – what should we do? As published on GP Online

Articles & Publications / By Anna Lemmer

At Ridouts, we are seeing an increase in the use of ‘letters of intent’ as the CQC moves away from timetabled inspections towards a more risk based approach. A letter of intent indicates that the CQC has concerns about a service. The will say that the regulator is considering whether to use its powers pursuant …

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CQC updates guidance on meeting the duty of candour

News / By Anna Lemmer

CQC has updated its guidance for providers on meeting Regulation 20, the duty of candour. The duty of candour was introduced in 2014 in response to concerns raised following investigations into Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The regulation puts a legal duty on all health and social care providers to be open and transparent with …

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A reminder to providers: Ofsted to resume “Assurance Visits”

Articles & Publications / By Maddi Gaunt

Ofsted will resume visits to children’s services again this month. Most visits were suspended in March 2020 because of Covid-19 restrictions but in August 2020, Ofsted confirmed that visits to children’s services would be resuming again from 1 September 2020. These “Assurance Visits” will be undertaken as part of Ofsted’s phased return to routine inspections. …

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