All registered health and social care providers must ensure their staff receive training in how to interact appropriately with autistic people and people who have a learning disability, at a level appropriate to their role. This requirement applies to all services and settings, as well as all health and care staff who may have contact with people with a learning disability and autistic people, including people not directly using their service.
We have published information on our website for all providers, explaining how this requirement affects your service. This includes information about the approach we will take, what we will look at when assessing your service, as well as actions we may take if there is evidence of poor care or treatment.
PEOPLE FIRST was developed from the outcomes of CQC's urgent and emergency care workshop held in May 2022, by members of CQC’s National Emergency Medicine Specialist Advisor Forum. And is a practical resource designed to help system leaders and service providers:
- embed the principles of person-centred, urgent and emergency care within
(and between) integrated care systems
- encourage innovation and share examples of good practice
The forum consists of senior clinicians who provide professional and specialist advice to CQC in carrying out its work. The workshop was attended by more than 250 leaders from across health and care. They all understand and are witness to the impact of the current pressures on people and on staff every day.
To perform their role effectively, Freedom to Speak Up guardians must have the knowledge, confidence and credibility so that they meet the needs of the workers and organisations they support.
The National Guardian’s Office requires all Freedom to Speak Up Guardians to undertake its programme of training on appointment and throughout their tenure.
Foundation Training for newly appointed guardians is now available as an e-learning package.
Freedom to Speak Up Guardians appointed before June 2022 are required to undertake the new Foundation elearning to support their learning and development.
The deadline for completing this year’s annual refresher training is 31 October 2022.
Please ensure that your Freedom to Speak Up Guardian has enough time and resources to complete their training by the deadline.
The Florence Nightingale Foundation have announced a new online leadership programme designed specially for internationally educated nurses and midwives in the UK. This programme has been designed with subject experts to help support career development for these valued colleagues.
There are 100 fully funded places available on the programme and applications close on the 30th September.
We have released a series of videos to give you an update on how we’re delivering our strategy and changing the way we work.
These are led by our senior leadership team and cover a variety of topics including the use of technology and data, putting people at the heart of our work and our new regulatory model.
- Are you a developer or adopter of artificial intelligence and digital technologies in health and social care? NICE, MHRA, HRA and CQC have launched an early version of their new multi-agency advisory service and need your help to shape it: Register your interest in user research
- We recently published a brief guide focusing on care of children and young people in unsuitable hospital settings. Our brief guides are used by inspection teams when looking at services. They set out how the inspection team should gather evidence and report their findings, as well as giving information about regulations. Read this and more brief guides on our website. View the guides on our website now.
- We have published a series of blogs about our transformation and the areas we have considered in relation to this. They are now in one easy to access reading list. Read these on Medium now,
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