If you are faced with a CQC criminal investigation into you or your service it is vital that you take prompt action. The CQC is becoming heavier handed in the fines that it dishes out to providers. Furthermore, the fact that some offences are punishable by imprisonment and that criminal enforcement action is likely to …
At Ridouts, when the CQC issue a notice of proposal seeking the imposition of conditions on a provider’s registration, we commonly find ourselves submitting that such extreme measures are unnecessary given the CQC’s powers to make a one-off request for information under Section 64 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (“Act”). But, what …
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