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The Care Quality Commission is the independent regulator of health and adult social care services in England, whether they are provided by the NHS, local authorities, private companies or voluntary organisations. We make sure people get better care. We do this by:
DRIVING IMPROVEMENT ACROSS HEALTH AND ADULT SOCIAL CARE Seeking your views on CQC’s registration system The regulation of health and adult social care is changing. From April 2010 all existing health and social care providers, new health and social care providers and NHS trusts will need to be registered with us. We’d like your views on how we make sure that health and social care providers meet the criteria needed to register with CQC. The consultation is open to people using services, patients, care providers and all interested stakeholders. Visit consultations on our website to give us your views. Making progress on infection control in the NHS The majority of NHS trusts have improved infection control, which is to be commended. Infection rates are falling and many hospitals are continuing to strengthen systems for protecting patients. Find full details on HCAI registration. PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST AND CHAMPIONING THEIR RIGHTS Involving people in everything we do CQC is committed to involving the people who use health and social care services in everything we do, and to ensuring that services involve their users and respond to what people tell them. We believe that involving people improves services for everyone. CQC will build on the best of what its predecessors did, and develop it. We will be publishing a full Statement of Involvement in mid-June. Read our draft involvement statement. GATHERING AND USING KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERTISE AND WORKING More patients say hospital wards and bathrooms are clean, finds major survey On 13 May CQC published results from the sixth national inpatient survey, carried out by 165 acute and specialist NHS trusts in England. Over 72,000 people participated in the survey and more patients than in previous years said that wards and bathrooms are clean. Ambulance services are rated highly in their response to non-urgent calls, survey shows Survey results we released on 13 May show that most of those who responded to the survey had a positive experience of the way they were looked after by the emergency ambulance service. CQC at the NHS Confederation Conference, 10-13 June 2009 Find out about CQC’s activities at the NHS Confederation conference. ACTING SWIFTLY TO REMEDY BAD PRACTICE NHS care of Baby Peter On 13 May we published our report into the four trusts that provided Peter’s NHS care. It highlights the failings of NHS trusts in the care they provided to Baby Peter. We will publish a second report this summer looking at children's safeguarding arrangements across the NHS. Read our report on the NHS care of Baby Peter. CQC to enquire into Take Care Now We will decide the precise scope of its enquiries over the next few days. Do contact us if you would like any further information. New enforcement powers Read our new enforcement policy. Update your subscription details Unsubscribe Forward to a colleague Any comments? Further information can be found on the Care Quality Commission’s website at www.cqc.org.uk |