CQC's new approach - what's changing (and what's not)? What's staying the same? Importantly, the central pillars of the CQC's assessment approach - i.e. the 5 key questions (are services 'safe', 'effective', 'caring', 'responsive' and 'well-led') and the ratings scale ('outstan...
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CQC inspections of local authorities were reintroduced as part of the Health and Care Act 2022, as you are probably already aware. These changes allow the CQC to act upon their additional responsibilities laid out in the Care Act 2014. Here their additional responsibilities include assessing...
More recently, this has been replaced by the Recovery Support Programme. NHS England and NHS Improvement used the CQC ratings to help decide whether NHS trusts require extra support to address issues of finance or quality of care. In this study, we selected all of the case organisations in ...