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Newsletter
Our monthly update for everyone interested in health and social care
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Our draft guidance on visiting care homes, hospitals and hospices: tell us what you think
We are asking for views on our proposed guidance to help providers understand and meet the new standard on visiting and accompanying in care homes, hospitals, and hospices.
The guidance also sets out what people using health and social care services and their families, friends or advocates can expect.
We would like to hear views from the public and providers, their representatives, and other stakeholders.
This consultation is limited to our guidance about the new fundamental standard. It does not cover the scope and content of the visiting legislation itself, which was looked at by the Department of Health and Social Care’s own consultation.
The consultation on our guidance closes at midday on 20 February 2024.
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Join us! Work for CQC
CQC staff have a wide range of skills and work across many disciplines.
Find out about roles within CQC, Healthwatch England and the Office of the National Guardian.
Current vacancies include:
- Head of Public Inquiries
- Regulation Manager (Human Tissue Authority)
- Paralegals
- Operations Support Senior Administrator
Benefits include generous leave entitlement, NHS or Nest pension schemes and a wide range of employee discounts.
Most roles offer flexible locations with the choice to be home-based. See the individual job listings for more information.
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Share your views and experience of maternity care to help improve inspection
We have asked the Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute (THIS Institute) to lead an independent evaluation of our National Maternity Inspection Programme.
THIS Institute aim to work with maternity service users, staff and other stakeholders to gather feedback that will help shape the way we assess maternity services.
You can help them by completing an online survey about the safety features you think are critical to delivering safe, high quality maternity care.
The survey is open until 6 February, and takes an estimated 10-30 minutes to complete.
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Blog: Continuing the work of the Supported Living Improvement Coalition
In the first of a new blog series, Stefan Kallee, interim Deputy Director for People with a learning disability and autistic people, shares the latest on the work of the Supported Living Improvement Coalition and its network groups.
The coalition brought together people with experience of supported living services, their relatives and representatives, care providers, charities, and local authorities among others.
Our role as the host organisation ended in 2023, and 3 groups continued work as the Supported Living Improvement Network. These groups looked at:
- Supporting people well
- Housing matters
- Respectful and inclusive language
Towards the end of 2023, we came back together as a coalition so that everyone could hear what the network groups had been working on and share information.
Following the meeting, the Respectful and Inclusive Language Network set up a survey to help understand what good communication is, how communication can be improved, and how people can be supported to lead conversations about their lives. It is aimed at people who use supported living services, their families and friends, and people working in supported living.
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