The Guardian highlights 7 per cent increase in inadequate dementia homes
One in five care homes in England is providing substandard care to dementia patients, the Guardian newspaper has reported.
Care Quality Commission
CQC announces rating programme for winter period
CQC has updated its regulatory approach of social care in light of winter pressures, including the Omicron variant.
Public feedback on care up 75pc in five months, CQC reveals
CQC’s feedback portal, ‘Give Feedback on Care’, saw a 75 per cent increase in contacts from the public earlier this year, CQC…
Cheltenham care home fined £495K after life-changing resident attack
A care provider has been ordered to pay £495,170 at Cirencester Magistrates’ Court, after it failed to protect residents from avoidable harm
Are you prepared for new CQC inspections?
How would you answer the CQC's question: How do systems, processes and practices safeguard people from abuse?
Whistleblowing up 43 per cent between 2019-20
Whistleblowing in the UK’s care sector rose to its highest recorded level in 2020, driven by health and safety concerns brought on…
Regulation of COVID jabs will be “proportionate”, CQC tells care show
The CQC has assured providers that its approach to the regulation of mandatory COVID vaccinations in care homes will be proportionate. Opening…
CQC invites comments on use of people’s experiences in regulation
CQC is inviting views on how it can improve its use of people's experiences of care in its new regulatory model.
CQC defends policy of fewer on-site inspections
CQC has defended its new policy of fewer on-site inspections, despite concerns raised about the importance of seeing care delivered at first…
CQC adds detail to its new inspection strategy
Details have begun to emerge of the new CQC inspection strategy.
