24th Report - Care Quality Commission: regulating health and social care
- HC No.
- HC 465
- Published
- 9 Mar 2018
- Items
- 0
- Response
- No response document linked
Select Committee · Public Accounts Committee
Care Quality Commission inquiry
Status: Closed
Opened: 3 Nov 2017
Closed: 3 Nov 2017
1 report
Inquiry scope
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. It is sponsored by the Department of Health and inspects hospitals, adult social care providers, and primary medical services such as GPs. A recent report from the National Audit Office (NAO) that sought to address problems identified by the NAO and by this Committee in the previous Parliament found that the CQC’s performance has improved. It has reduced staff vacancies and completed an inspection regime of 28,000 locations. However, there are outstanding concerns about the CQC’s information systems, and timeliness in publishing reports. Providers inspected by the CQC have some residual apprehensions about consistency of inspections, which CQC is trying to address by training staff. The NAO also identified risks around the CQC’s plan to base more of its regulation activities around risk-based information and data, which would require good-quality and reliable digital systems. Delivering change like this whilst taking on new responsibilities increases risks to the organisation. The Public Accounts Committee will ask representatives from the Department of Health and Care Quality Commission about improvements made within the CQC, outstanding risks and how they will be managed, and what has been learned from resolving the Committee’s previous concerns.Reports
Oral evidence sessions
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| Date | Session and witnesses | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Dec 2017 | No witnesses recorded | View ↗ |
Correspondence
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| Published | Direction | Letter |
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| 30 Apr 2019 | To committee | Letter from Ian Trenholm to Chair in response to the Committee report on the Care Quality Commission regulating health and social care - dated 24 April 2019 |
| 28 Nov 2018 | — | Care Quality Commission, Treasury Minute Response - 20.11.2018 |
| 20 Mar 2018 | — | Correspondence with the Department for Health and Social Care, dated 12 January 2018 |