CQC has issued a really helpful short guide for general practice which includes a number of myth busting facts including the phrase ‘the majority of practices will already be meeting the essential standards of quality and safety’; practices are able to declare non-compliance providing they show how they plan to become compliant and it also refutes the need for practices to remove all carpets and toys using the phrase proportionate! Click here to read full guide.
** Latest news from Carole Cusack Wessex LMCS Director following her meeting with CQC Nov 2011**
Document Registration of Primary Medical Service Providers with the CQC -DOH June 2011
We ran a series of Workshops across Wessex which included information about PPG, Extended Hours and CQC latest news. Click here to go to the page to look at the presentations
Dr Laurence Buckman, Chairman of the BMA’s GPs Committee, said of the BMA CQC Toolkit (see below):
“The BMA is supportive of the idea of CQC registration and we’ve been working closely with the CQC on this. We have launched this toolkit to help guide GPs through registration but, nevertheless, we have serious concerns about the current process. The CQC’s expectations for demonstrating compliance are unrealistic. They will be a huge administrative burden and will end up taking GPs away from seeing patients; the self-assessment form is too complicated and the nature of the questions means that GPs are likely to feel like they are taking part in a creative writing exercise, which is not the correct way to demonstrate compliance.
“We will be urging the CQC to make the process simpler and to make further changes. So in the mean time I would urge GPs to use this toolkit to collect their thoughts, but we would advise them not to start significant work on demonstrating compliance. Equally, at this stage, practices should not employ third parties to do the work for them. Registration is important but it is just as important that the workload is reasonable and appropriate.”
CQC letter to practices Feb 2011
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of all health and adult social care in England. It came into being on 1st April 2009 bringing together the responsibilities of the Commission for Social Care Inspection, the Mental Health Act Commission and the Healthcare Commission.
This is how they describe themselves on their website:
Our aim is to make sure better care is provided for everyone, whether that's in hospital, in care homes, in people's own homes, or elsewhere.
Our vision is of high quality health and social care which
By high quality care, we mean care that
Our values are to:
CQC Enforcement policy document
CQC Report into Take Care Now - the OOH service which employed Dr Daneil Urbani) July 2010
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