Laura Hannah, solicitor and Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulatory expert at Stephensons Solicitors LLP, discusses the new CQC assessment framework, what it involves and how it has changed
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) strategy for 2016 to 2021 sets out its aim to achieve a more “targeted, responsive and collaborative approach” to ensure that more people receive high quality care in the future. It is the most recent phase in an evolving regulatory landscape in which the CQC has radically changed its approach to health and social care services in recent years.
In December 2016, the CQC issued its first consultation, ‘Our Next Phase of Regulation’, which for the first time proposed a standardised approach across the health and social care sector. A response to this consultation was published in June 2017, which confirmed the changes to be made to the current assessment frameworks. A second consultation was published in June 2017 and a third is expected later this year
The CQC has already confirmed that it will be moving from its current 11 separate assessment frameworks to just two: one for healthcare and one for adult social care. The reason for this is to try and ensure that its end to end approach from registration through to monitoring and inspection to rating and reporting provides a single high level process that can be tailored to individual providers.
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