Join CQC’s digital participation platform!
We are piloting a different way of gaining your feedback and ideas to shape our work – a digital platform. You will be able to get involved in different ways: sharing your feedback through discussions, reviewing documents, responding to surveys, posting your own ideas, and voting and commenting on the ideas of others.
This is a pilot so we’ll be collecting views throughout on what people think and how we could make it even better!
How do I sign up? It's easy! Follow the instructions on the sign up page.
You can use an email address or your Google or Facebook account. We’ll also ask you a few questions about what groups you represent and what health and social care services you use, work in or are interested in. This information is important to us because it will help us make sure you see the participation opportunities that are relevant to your interests.
New Medicines FAQ
We have published a new Medicines FAQ on Handling Sharps in Adult Social Care to help providers understand their health and safety responsibilities as an employer in relation to the handling of needles in social care settings, including when providing support in people’s own homes.
Needlestick accidents are one of the biggest causes of occupational injury in the healthcare sector and whilst there is limited data on the number of accidents in the adult social care sector, we want to make sure providers are aware of the issue and informed about good practice that will help reduce the risk of this type of avoidable injury occurring to their staff and people who use services.
The FAQ has been developed with input from the Safer Needles Network which includes representatives from the Health and Safety Executive, adult social care and NHS providers and trade unions.
NHS Digital 'Social Care Digital Pathfinders Grant'
On April 1 NHS Digital announced the ‘Social Care Digital Pathfinders Grant’ was open for applications, which invites organisations that provide and commission adult social care services to bid for a share of £4.8 million to “enable them to roll out their local digital projects on a wider scale”.
Applications must be submitted by Wednesday 22 May and the selected applications will begin with a four month development phase, followed by a 13 month implementation phase if development is successful.
For more information please visit the NHS Digital website.
Improved guidance on how to display your ratings
Ratings help people find out about the quality of health and care services. It is a legal requirement for services to display their rating at each location delivering a regulated service and, if applicable, on their website.
We have improved our guidance on how services can comply with the regulation.
Events
- On 1 May Ian Trenholm, Chief Executive, and Debbie Westhead, Interim Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, will be part of a panel at the ADASS annual spring seminar, discussing sustainability in adult social care. More information can be found here.
- On 14 May Debbie Westhead will be a keynote speaker at The Southern Care Show, held at Farnborough Conference Centre.
- We'll be exhibiting at the Royal College of Nursing Congress between Sunday 19 May and Wednesday 22 May in Liverpool. Come and talk to the inspectors on our stand if you have any questions you would like to ask us!
Debbie Westhead's career as a front line care worker
Debbie has written a blog for the National Association of Care and Support Workers about her career as a front line care worker and how these experiences made her who she is today. Read the full blog.
What the pre-election period means for CQC
CQC, as a public body, has to respect the pre-election period due to local elections taking place on 2 May. This means that there are restrictions on what we are allowed to publish and announce in the period before these elections. We can, however, continue our ‘business as usual’ activity – delivering our regulatory role.
As the regulatory of health and adult social care, we will continue to regulate, monitor, and inspect services to make sure people are receiving safe, high-quality and compassionate care and to encourage improvement. We will also continue to take enforcement action against providers that are not delivering the care that we expect from them.
Further information can be found in this news story.
Reporting to the LeDeR programme
The Learning Disabilities Mortality Review (LeDeR) programme aims to make improvements to the lives of people with learning disabilities. It is delivered by the University of Bristol and commissioned by the healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) on behalf of NHS England.
A key part of the programme is to support local areas to review the deaths of people with learning disabilities to take forward any lessons learned and make improvements to service provision.
All deaths of people with learning disabilities should be notified to the LeDeR team. This is to help determine the numbers of people with learning disabilities who die each year, and their characteristics. For more information, visit the LeDeR programme website.
Other news
- Kate Terroni, CQC's new Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care starts her role on 1 May.
- NICE has published a summary bringing together all its recommendations and safety advice on the drug valproate.
- We have added further prompts to some statutory notification forms. Read the full update.
- Read Deputy Chief Inspector of Registration Joyce Frederick's latest Care Management Magazine column.
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