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The independent regulator of health
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A regular update for providers and professionals working in adult social care.
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Debbie Ivanova’s latest column
The latest column from Debbie Ivanova, Director for People with a Learning Disability and Autistic People is available in Care Management Matters.
Debbie talks about how the best care is designed in partnership with the people who use it and how people who use services should have the power and opportunity to shape their care. .
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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 is a resource to help system leaders and service providers. It was designed and developed:
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using outcomes from CQC's urgent and emergency care workshop, held in May 2022
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by members of the CQC National Emergency Medicine Specialist Advisor Forum.
This new resource recognises the unscheduled care pathway as a continuum, with solutions needed across the artificial divides between primary, secondary, community and social care. It aims to:
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support the design of person-centred urgent and emergency care services
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encourage innovation across integrated care systems.
Unsafe management of sepsis
Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection. It happens when the body’s immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage internal organs, triggering a chain reaction. It is a medical emergency and is sometimes called septicaemia or blood poisoning.
The following learning from safety incidents briefly describes a critical issue in relation to sepsis - what happened, what CQC and the provider have done about it, and the steps you can take to avoid it happening in your service.
The Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS)
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) will use ASC-WDS as one of the ways to measure the impact that reform initiatives will have on social care providers.
ASC-WDS is managed by Skills for Care. It’s a service which allows providers to store their workforce and training records, access funding for training, and benchmark their workplace. It also produces crucial intelligence which is used to plan and fund the sector. Care providers can also choose to share their data with CQC to help with monitoring activity.
Skills for Care has worked closely with DHSC and care providers to add some new questions to the dataset which will act as a proxy measure to see the impact of changes in the sector. The new questions ask about the ease and cost of recruitment, repetition of training, and employee benefits.
If you already have an ASC-WDS account, sign in to check out the new questions. If you’re new to ASC-WDS, you can find out more, and register for an account on Skills for Care’s website.
In this latest blog, Chris Day, Director of Engagement, talks about how we are continuing to improve how we put people and communities at the heart of all our work.
Lucy Wilkinson, our head of equality, health inequalities and human rights, writes about how we are transforming the way we regulate and the new opportunities to tackle inequalities across health and social care.
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Other news
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We’re reviewing our timeline for transformation, for more information catch up with our latest bulletin
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State of Care will be published on 21 October – sign up to receive the report.
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Our CQC In Focus video series updates on how we’re changing to deliver the ambitions of our new strategy
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We’re making updates to the reports we publish on health and social care providers. These updates include the layout on our website, sections and information on how we've assessed providers. You can feedback on these proposed changes through our digital engagement platform (you’ll need to sign up / log in to access this)
- Our annual provider survey is coming soon, you’ll shortly receive an invite via email to feedback on CQC’s work.
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Guidance and links
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Follow @CQCProf on Twitter to get regular updates about the work we are doing with professionals and provider organisations in England.
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