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 …
HSJ reported last week upon CQC having taken enforcement action against an NHS Trust by the issue of a Warning Notice. A Warning Notice is a step which records that the regulator believes that evidence to the criminal standard (beyond reasonable doubt) is established which justifies the prosecution of the provider (in this case a …
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