 Birmingham Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is rated Outstanding
Following inspections carried out in May 2016, we rated the specialist paediatric centre outstanding for being caring, effective and responsive. The publication of this report marks the last report of our first round of hospital inspections.
Sir Mike Richards commented saying: "Hospitals can be stressful places at the best of times, especially for children, young people and their parents or carers, so it is very pleasing to see a trust working so effectively to provide the best care."
Read the full story on our website.
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We've completed our comprehensive inspection programme
We are pleased to announce we have completed our comprehensive inspection programme of all adult social care services and GP practices that were registered before 1 October 2014. In total, including inspections carried out in response to risk, we have carried out more than 30,000 inspections across adult social care services. Read more here.
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New CQC fees for registered providers 2017/18 to be published in March
Next month, we'll be publishing our final fees scheme that sets out our annual charges to providers from April 2017. Following a full public consultation last year, these changes are to make sure that we can continue monitoring, inspecting and regulating services to ensure they meet the fundamental standards of quality and safety.
The amount that providers will pay for their regulation will depend on the type of health or social care they offer, as well as how close they are already to meeting the cost of their regulation in full. The full details of the fees increase will be published in our final fees scheme in March. We will also publish our response to the fees consultation and other supporting information.
Next phase consultation – thank you for your responses
We received nearly 500 responses to our consultation on the next phase of regulation, which closed earlier this month. This consultation sought your views on the principles of how we will regulate new models of care and complex providers; changes to assessment frameworks across all sectors; how we will register services for people with learning disabilities; and the way we will regulate NHS trusts and foundation trusts from April 2017.
A second consultation in the spring will seek views on how we will regulate adult social care and primary medical service providers from October 2017.
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Provider Engagement Manager opportunity
We are looking for a Provider Engagement Manager to work as part of a dynamic team that helps CQC to engage and involve health and social care providers in our work. Read more about this exciting opportunity here.
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