The Government is presently consulting on new regulations aimed at granting the Care Quality Commission (“CQC”) additional authority to oversee and enforce visitation arrangements by care providers. This comes amid concerns that there are continued instances where visitors are unfairly denied access to their loved ones. The proposed regulations would impose a legal obligation on …
In recent times, we have noticed that the CQC’s responses to warning notice representations have become very light touch. Reasoned responses to Provider’s detailed submissions and evidence have been replaced with blanket responses which simply specify whether the representations are being upheld or not with no reasons provided, alongside any associated decision on whether to …
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As has now been widely publicised, the CQC has abandoned its regular schedule of inspection for all health and social care services, including GP practices. Inspections will now be triggered by perceptions of risk, related to any notifications received by the regulator or any third party concerns or staff whistleblowing. As has been set out …
So you see it pop into your inbox – an email from the Care Quality Commission (“CQC”) issuing a Warning Notice for breach of regulations. The three to four page document outlines in detail how you have failed, or are failing, to comply with one or more of the regulations. At the end it simply …
Under its new strategy and its current monitoring approach CQC is clearly and unapologetically focused on risk and not improvement. As a result, at Ridouts, we are seeing clients experience a rise in enforcement action. In recent times we have seen CQC inspect services and inform providers, before they have issued a draft report, that …
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