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At the end of February we will be updating the form that health and social care providers should use to notify us of the outcome of an application to deprive a person of their liberty. Providers must notify CQC as soon as they know the outcome of an application, this includes Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) applications and applications made to the Court of Protection.
The updated form will incorporate an additional field prompting providers to specify the date on which the outcome of the application was received or the date of its withdrawal. Please ensure that if you have locally stored copies of the notification form you update these. The notification form will also be updated in our new CQC portal.
We will confirm in our next provider update that this change has taken place.
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We have become aware of a number of discrepancies between the way providers are advertising their service type, specialisms and client groups on websites such as carehome.co.uk and what they have told us they deliver through their Statement of Purpose.
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We'd like to take the opportunity to remind providers to ensure these details about your locations are aligned. You can do this either by updating your pages on the appropriate websites or by updating your Statement of Purpose and sending it to us through the usual notification route. It is a breach of the regulations to deliver additional specialities without notifying CQC. Find out more about service user bands and your responsibilities here: Service user bands - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)
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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.
This includes introducing the learning from analysis undertaken to understand the key topics that Coalition partners talked about during meetings. That work highlighted 4 key factors that partners said affected quality in supported living. These were under the broad areas of variation; sharing; choice; and relationships.
Stefan also talks about 3 network groups that have continued the work of the Coalition since CQC ended as the host organisation. One of those groups is currently running a survey to gather views on what good communication looks like. The aim is to share findings with providers to support conversations with people and identify good practice. You can share your views through the online form until 11 March. There is also Easy Read guidance to accompany the online form.
Read the blog on our Medium page and share your reflections on our online participation platform.
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The Care Workforce Pathway was published at the beginning of January. It is the first national career structure for the adult social care workforce and part of £75 million of funding aimed at improving the career prospects of the adult social care workforce.
The Pathway was co-developed by the Department of Health and Social Care and Skills for Care, alongside workforce representatives, the CQC and people who use care and support. The first phase covers people in direct care roles, with further phases covering the rest of the workforce to follow in 2024/25. While the Pathway isn’t mandatory, it will inform nationally recognised good practice and support employers to meet CQC’s regulations for a safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led service.
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Making sure people’s medicines are managed safely is important. Adult social care services (ASC) and the people they support can benefit from the help and advice provided from other healthcare professionals and services, such as GPs, hospitals, pharmacies and councils. We also know that ASC services are not always able to access this additional medicines support, and so Ipsos is undertaking research on behalf of CQC to understand more about this issue and its impact on ASC services and the people they care for.
We’d really like to hear about
- The support adult social care services receive from other healthcare professionals and organisations to help your service manage people’s medicines safely.
- What advice and support adult social care services would like to be able to access to help manage people’s medicines safely.
Your service will receive a unique link to complete the survey during February.
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