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Care Quality Commission

Care Quality Commission
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Abbreviation CQC
Formation April 2009; 8 years ago (2009-04)
Type Non-departmental public body
Legal status Operational
Location
  • 151 Buckingham Palace Road, London
Coordinates 51.523042, -0.090166
Region served
England
Chair
Peter Wyman
Chief Executive
David Behan
Chief Inspector of Hospitals
Prof Sir Mike Richards
Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care
Andrea Sutcliffe
Key people
Chief Inspector of Primary Care: Prof Steve Field
Budget
£166m gross expenditure (2012/13)
Staff
2,147 whole time equivalents (2012/13)
Website www.cqc.org.uk

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care services in England.

It was formed from three predecessor organisations:

The CQC's stated role is to make sure that hospitals, care homes, dental and general practices and other care services in England provide people with safe, effective and high-quality care, and to encourage them to improve. It carries out this role through checks it carries out during the registration process all new care services must complete, inspections and monitoring of a range of data sources that can indicate problems with services.

Part of the commission's remit is protecting the interests of people whose rights have been restricted under the Mental Health Act.

Until 31 March 2009, regulation of health and adult social care in England was carried out by the Healthcare Commission and the Commission for Social Care Inspection. The Mental Health Act Commission had monitoring functions with regard to the operation of the Mental Health Act 1983.

The commission was established as a single, integrated regulator for England's health and adult social care services by the Health and Social Care Act 2008 to replace these three bodies. The Commission was created in shadow form on 1 October 2008 and began operating on 1 April 2009.

The Commission has three chief inspectors who are also board members:

Previous board members have included:

In October 2014 Field announced that the Commission was going to begin inspecting health systems across whole geographical areas from 2015, including social care and NHS 111. There are suggestions that it could inspect clinical commissioning groups.

Behan admitted in March 2015 that the Commission would not be able to inspect all acute trusts before the end of 2015 as it had intended. In February 2015 it reported that it was missing its targets for following up on the safeguarding information it received that might indicate that patients are at risk. He also said the CQC would update its oversight in line with the growth of new provider models and would begin looking at care quality along pathways to a greater degree and, for the first time, across localities.


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