Maternity services survey
On Tuesday this week, we published findings from our national survey of more than 17,600 women who gave birth in February last year. Findings show that many had a good experience, particularly in relation to interactions with staff, access to midwives and emotional support during pregnancy but improvements are still needed.
See full results for England, as well as individual results for each trust.
Nursing associates guidance
As of Monday this week, the first cohort of qualified nursing associates have been able to join the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) register for the first time. This important role is intended to address a skills gap between health and care assistants and registered nurses. It will also help widen access to the health and care professions by opening up new routes to training that previously did not exist.
CQC’s review of the use of restrictive interventions in places that provide care for people with mental health problems, a learning disability and/or autism
At the end of 2018 the Secretary for Health and Social Care, Matt Hancock, asked us to look at the use of restrictive interventions. The review will look at how places providing inpatient and residential care for people with mental health problems, a learning disability, and/or autism use these interventions and we will make recommendations about their use.
The work began in December 2018 and we will report on our interim findings in May 2019, before a full report is published in March 2020.
Please visit our website to find out more information on why we are doing this review, what we will look at and how we will carry out the work.
Have your say on our registration guidance
Scope of Registration
To make it clearer for providers who should register with CQC and for which regulated activities, we would like feedback on your experience of using our guidance: The Scope of Registration.
Login to our online community and complete our short webform asking for your views.
Continuing regulatory history
We have developed new guidance for providers on our approach to continuing regulatory history and are looking for your views on clarity and content.
Our approach to continuing regulatory history will mean that the history (ratings, inspection reports and details of enforcement action) stays with a location when it moves or changes ownership and this information is displayed on our website and remains part of the CQC register.
To share your views on this new guidance, login to our online community and complete our short webform now.
If relevant, please share these engagement opportunities with colleagues in your organisation. They will need to register with the online community to share feedback.
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Review of how local health and social care systems work together in Reading
We have published a report looking at how older people move through the health and social care system in Reading. The report is one of 23 targeted local system reviews looking specifically at how older people move through the health and social care system, with a focus on how services work together.
CQC's Annual Provider Survey 2019
On the 31st January we launched the 2019 Annual Provider Survey. The survey tracks providers’ knowledge, understanding and opinion of CQC and we use the results to improve how we work with providers and other stakeholders.
Among a range of topics, it seeks providers' views on:
- their experiences of CQC – our regulation, registration, inspection
- what contributes to improvements in quality of care.
Following on from last years successful trial we've sent the survey to a representative sample of providers to complete so please look out for an email inviting you to participate.
New Chief Inspectors
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Kate Terroni has been appointed as Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care
Currently Director of Adult Social Care at Oxfordshire County Council Kate is also a registered social worker and co-chair of the ADASS workforce network. Kate will take over the role from Debbie Westhead in May. Debbie has been interim Chief Inspector since Andrea Sutcliffe left CQC in December last year. To read more visit the news pages on our website.
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Dr Rosie Benneyworth has been appointed as Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care.
Rosie will take over from Professor Steve Field at the beginning of March. Rosie is currently the Director of Strategic Clinical Services Transformation for Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group and Vice Chair of the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
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Free flu vaccinations for health and social care staff
Everyone working in health and social care is encouraged to have their free flu vaccination, which helps protect themselves, their patients, their colleagues and their families against seasonal flu. More information, including resources for providers to encourage their staff to get a flu vaccination, is available on the Flu Fighter website.
NHS England also recently confirmed that this year free flu vaccinations are available for social care workers and those who work in the voluntary managed hospice sector that offer direct care to people using services. For more information, read the full announcement letter
Other news
- The Medical Director for NHS England, Professor Stephen Powis has welcomed the introduction of new mental health checks to safeguard those seeking non-surgical, cosmetic procedures from high street chain Superdrug.
- The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) has published evidence from its ‘Winter Flow Project’ that demonstrates the "weakest performance in meeting the four hour performance standard ever recorded for this time of year".
- The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has released 'Preventing suicide in England: fourth progress report of the cross-government outcomes strategy to save lives.' The report sets out what has been done to reduce deaths by suicide in England from 2017 to 2018.
- DHSC has published the first cross-government suicide prevention workplan, which will be led by the Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Jackie Doyle-Price MP. The workplan focuses on the use of social media and technology, such as artificial intelligence, as a means to identify those at risk of suicide.
- The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has launched a consultation regarding an update to the depression in children guideline. NICE says that digital cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) can be offered to young people with mild depression.
- The Healthcare Safety Investigations Branch (HSIB) published a report which shows that "a lack of national guidance and standard practice for ambulance transfers could be putting patients at risk." The report sets out two safety recommendations concerning the Department for Health and Social Care and the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives.
- Public Health England has launched a consultation seeking views on changes to the Public Health Outcomes Framework, which is due to be updated in summer 2019. This consultation closes on 17 February 2019.
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