CQC Updates
The CQC have released the following updates which can be found below:
- CQC launches new five year strategy
- Better care in my hands: A review of how people are involved in their care
- CQC looks at quality of care across two local areas
- CQC seeks ‘Tell us about your care’ partners for 2016/17
Encouraging improvement and protecting people at a time of change: CQC launches new five year strategy
The Care Quality Commission today publishes its strategy for 2016 to 2021, setting out an ambitious vision for a more targeted, responsive and collaborative approach to regulation so more people get high quality care.
It describes how CQC will combine learning from 22,000 comprehensive inspections with better use of intelligence from the public, providers and partners in order to focus inspections more tightly than ever to where people may be at risk of poor care.
Against a context of increasing care needs combined with financial pressure, services are changing the way they organise and deliver care – and CQC’s approach is evolving to reflect these changes. The new strategy will help encourage services to innovate and collaborate in order to drive improvement, while ensuring that people continue to receive good, safe care – which, in a time of tighter public finances, will be more crucial than ever.
Shaping the future describes how CQC will build on the strong foundations of its current approach, using the unique picture of quality and in-depth understanding of the sectors it regulates gained from its first round of comprehensive inspections. The strategy was developed following a year-long consultation period during which thousands of people, providers, staff and partners shared their views about the future of regulation. The report and an easy read version are on the strategy homepage.
CQC launches new five year strategy
Better care in my hands: A review of how people are involved in their care
Better Care In My Hands describes how well people are involved in their own care and what good involvement looks like.
People’s right to being involved in their own care is enshrined in law in the fundamental standards of care. It is an essential part of person-centred care and leads to better and often more cost effective outcomes.
This report is based on newly analysed evidence from our national reports and inspection findings, as well as national patient surveys and a literature review. It identifies what enables people and their families to work in partnership with health and social care staff and illustrates this with good practice examples from our inspection findings.
A review of how people are involved in their care
CQC looks at quality of care across two local areas
We have now published two further prototype reports looking at how we might assess the quality of care in a local area in order to encourage improvement.
Looking across an area helps us explore, on behalf of people using services, whether local health and care services are working together in ways that reflect people’s needs.
The project that has resulted in these reports on Salford and Tameside was designed to find out if we would be able to form a view about quality across an area as a whole.
We recognise that our existing regulation of individual care providers, such as hospitals, care homes or GP services, needs to develop to reflect the changing ways in which care is being delivered.
We published our first prototype ‘place’ report – on North Lincolnshire – earlier this year.
CQC looks at quality of care across two local areas
CQC seeks ‘Tell us about your care’ partners for 2016/17
We are seeking ‘Tell us about your care’ partners for 2016/17 and have now published a ‘Request for Information’ market engagement exercise.
This is part of a process to engage with the market in order to inform the further development of draft proposals for the future service delivery of ‘Tell us about your care’ partnerships.
CQC seeks ‘Tell us about your care’ partners for 2016/17