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The independent regulator of health
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Today, we have published information on changes we're making to how we regulate. In March 2020, we suspended our routine inspection programme in response to COVID-19 and developed our ability to monitor services using a mix of on-site and off-site methods. We’re further evolving our monitoring approach to ensure the public have assurance about the safety and quality of the care they receive, while still focusing on risk.
The developments we’re announcing today carry on the progress in how we monitor services in three key areas by:
- improving our ability to monitor risk to help us be more targeted in our regulatory activity
- bringing information together in one place for inspection teams, presented in a way that supports inspectors with their decision making
- testing elements of how we want to work in the future, including how we provide a more up-to-date view of risk for people who use services.
We'll start piloting changes in how we monitor services from this week, before rolling these out to more services from July.
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