Even the closest of observers of CQC might have missed its recent response to “Our next phase of regulation: consultation 2” where it sets out its intentions for regulating adult social care services. This response serves as a precursor to how it will regulate and inspect providers in the near future. CQC intends to change …
CQC have recently completed the inspections of some 24,000 different locations providing adult social care. It published its State of Adult Social Care report covering 2014 to 2017 and clearly feels empowered and emboldened to draw conclusions from the inspections it has conducted. Nursing Homes are singled out for particular mention in the report with …
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Just a little over a year ago on 1 February 2016 the sentencing guidelines for Health and Safety Offences were introduced. They are of wide reaching impact for the health and social care sector in particular in relation to breaches, alleged or actual, of health and safety law. The guidelines were brought in to provide …
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 …
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