Website: Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. Their 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.
They regulate health and adult social care services, whether provided by the NHS, local authorities, private companies or voluntary organisations. And, they protect the rights of people detained under the Mental Health Act.
It replaces the Healthcare Commission, Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Mental Health Act Commission which ceased to exist on 31 March 2009.
This publication gives an overview of the new system of registration for health and adult social care in England.
The scope of registration aims to help providers understand whether they need to register with the Care Quality Commission under the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
(Care Quality Commission, 09 November 2009)
Index of good practise examples
(Healthcare Commission / Healthcare Commission, Commssion for Social Care Inspection, Audit Commission, Year)
The guidance is for health and adult social care providers on meeting the essential standards of quality and safety that will apply as part of the new registration system. The three documents that comprise this guidance are:
(Care Quality Commission, 8 December 2009)
Find out about the different types of home care inspection, what to expect, and what happens after an inspection. Inspections are used to encourage improvement in social care services.
(Care Quality Commission)
A national study of how well healthcare organisations engage local people in planning and improving their services
(Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection, 2009)
The Healthcare Commission, the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Audit Commission have jointly undertaken a review of progress against the National Service Framework for Older People and this summary report provides a national snapshot of the state of services for older people.
(Healthcare Commission / Commssion for Social Care Inspection, 27 March 2006)
This report describes some of the methods the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) developed for regulating social care – from involving people who use services in all aspects of CSCI work to making regulatory information publicly available – and illustrates why these are effective. It describes processes as well as outcomes, because their experience has shown that well-designed processes, which involve the people affected by them, result in better regulatory outcomes. Each section focuses on a particular element of our work, which together comprise the levers for making social care better for people.
(Commission for Social Care Inspection)
This is the first Care Quality Commission (CQC) statement on the quality of adult social care in England, based on the publication of several documents. They found that adult social care has improved but a renewed effort is needed to eliminate poor quality services.
(Care Quality Commission, 03 December 2009)
This five year plan outlines aims to drive up standards on behalf of people with learning disabilities. This will involve building intelligence networks within services, representative groups and other relevant organisations to feed into the regulator's picture of services and direct where inspections should take place.
(The Care Quality Commission, 15 December 2009)
