Victoria Vallance, Director of Secondary and Specialist Care, discusses how engagement with frontline NHS maternity staff has informed our inspection approach and is being used to support improvements in care. For most women, pregnancy and birth are a positive and safe experience. But sadly, that is not the case for…

As we look to integrated care systems becoming established as statutory bodies from 1 July, Director of Engagement, Chris Day, sets out more detail on CQC’s role in system assessment. Back in April this year, I wrote a blog that recognised the changes in health and social care, and how…

In this blog, Dr Mani Hussain, Director of Primary and Community Care, talks about CQC’s involvement in the multi-agency advice service on artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence (AI) and Data-driven technologies have exciting potential to improve the quality of care for people using services. For example, hospitals are now using AI…

In her new blog, Joyce Frederick, Director of Policy & Strategy updates on the development of our new regulatory model. In his latest blog, CQC’s Chief Executive, Ian Trenholm, gave an overview of what we have done as an organisation since the launch of our strategy in May 2021. It’s…

In her latest blog, Kate Terroni, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care talks about our commitment to include the voices of people with lived experience when speaking publicly I have the privilege of regularly being invited to conferences and events to talk about adult social care and CQC’s work in…

In this first blog of a new series exploring our progress in delivering the ambitions of our strategy, Ian Trenholm, Chief Executive Officer at CQC reflects on the work we’ve done over the last 12 months. This month marks a year since we launched our ‘New strategy for the…

In this blog, Dr Rosie Benneyworth, Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care at the Care Quality Commission, and Richard Stubbs, CEO of Yorkshire & Humber AHSN and Vice-Chair of the AHSN Network, reflect on the collaborative work undertaken to better understand how to support GP practices to…

Chris Day, Director of Engagement at CQC talks about the approaches we are taking to implement our new strategy and transform how we’ll regulate. Health and social care is changing, so are we I’m always impressed by the ways health and social care providers and systems innovate to improve the quality of care they provide for people. Some of…

In this blog, Dr Rosie Benneyworth, Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care, discusses the results of CQC’s research into the impact and experience of CQC regulation on ethnic minority-led GP practices. Here at CQC, using our independent voice to challenge inequalities is an integral part of the…