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…

In this blog Debbie Ivanova, Deputy Chief Inspector — People with a learning disability and autistic people, and Jemima Burnage, Deputy Chief Inspector and Mental Health Lead, update on what has changed just under a year and a half on since CQC’s Out of Sight report published in 2020. — We’re now 1 year and 5 months on since we released our 2020 Out of Sight report in October 2020. In 2020 we found many people with a learning disability, mental ill health and or autistic people were in inappropriate services with poor cultures that did not meet their needs…

In a new blog Jemima Burnage, Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals and Lead for Mental Health, reflects on the findings of the 2020/21 Monitoring the Mental Health Act report. — This year’s Monitoring the Mental Health Act (MHA) report makes sobering reading and is another stark reminder of the unprecedented pressure that the pandemic has placed on all health and social care services, the staff working in them and the people who rely upon them. Despite these challenges, staff’s commitment…

In this blog Debbie Ivanova, Deputy Chief Inspector — People with a learning disability and autistic people, and Jemima Burnage, Deputy Chief Inspector and Mental Health Lead, update on the progress since CQC’s Out of Sight report published last year detailed in a new report. It’s been just over a…

Victoria Watkins, Deputy Chief Inspector lead for children and young people, and Jemima Burnage, Deputy Chief Inspector of mental health, discuss our latest provider collaboration review, which focused on mental health care of children and young people during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re stating the obvious, but children and young people…

In this blog, Rosie Benneyworth, Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care, and Kate Terroni, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, set out how they hope to use new powers in the Health and Care Bill to look at how the care provided in a local system is…

In his latest blog, Mark Sutton, Chief Digital Officer, highlights our ambitions and plans to use data to transform our regulation. Our new strategy launched in May, puts data and insight front and centre to how we’ll work in the future. We set out our ambition to be a smarter…

In her latest blog, Joyce Frederick, Director of Policy and Strategy updates on work we are doing to develop a new regulatory model In my first week back at CQC, as the new Director of Policy and Strategy, I wanted to update you on where we are with the work…