Share your views in CQC consultation to help improve assessment and rating of health and care providers
Better regulation, better care
Consultation on improving how CQC assess and rate providers
The consultation is now open! The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is England’s independent health and adult social care regulator. We monitor, inspect and regulate services to make sure they meet standards of quality and safety and we publish what we find, including performance ratings to help people choose care.
This is your opportunity to share your views and help us to improve how we assess and rate health and care providers. This consultation is about our proposals to evolve and improve our approach to assessing and rating health and care providers.
The consultation closes at 5pm on 11 December.
It sets out:
- how we propose to develop our frameworks and guidance for assessing providers
- how we propose to change our methods for inspecting, assessing and awarding ratings to health and care services.
Our proposals include:
- Describing our expectations of quality for all our rating levels
- Providing a clearer view of quality and safety for the sectors that we regulate
- Making our assessment frameworks simpler and clearer
- Simplifying our rating approach and strengthening the role of professional judgement
- Reviewing and clarifying our approach to following up assessments and updating rating judgements
- Potential changes to our approach to rating NHS trusts and independent hospitals
We really value your input, and responding is simple:
Find out more about our work: www.cqc.org.uk