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 ('outstanding', 'good', 'requires improvement' and 'inadequate') - are here to stay. Similarly...
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Through streamlining this process, the CQC have the responsibility to assess how well local authorities are meeting their duties under part 1 of the Care Act. Their aim is to understand how the care provided in local areas is improving outcomes for people and how that is reducing healt...
More recently, this has been replaced by the Recovery Support Programme.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 ...