General Practitioners and Social Services: Inspections

(asked on 14th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of (a) adult social care providers and (b) GP practices have been inspected by the Care Quality Commission since September 2013.


Answered by
 Portrait
Ben Gummer
This question was answered on 19th October 2015

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of Health and Adult Social Care in England and is responsible for the inspection of providers. CQC has provided the following information.


CQC monitors, inspects and regulates services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and it publishes what it finds, including performance ratings to help people choose care. From 1 October 2014 CQC formally introduced its new style of inspection across the organisation, which had been developed and tested since September 2013. Under its new approach CQC no longer inspects all locations each year, and have made this clear in its co-production and publications. This enables CQC to ensure its inspection reports are comprehensive and of high quality.


Below are three tables which describe the number of active registered locations broken down by year and published inspection reports broken down by year and expressed as a percentage for CQC’s old and new style of inspections. The category Adult Social Care includes; care homes, domiciliary care, supported living services, extra care housing services and a range of other service types.

CQC counts completed inspections as those where the final reports are now published.


Table 1: Total number of GPs/out-of-hours locations and Adult Social Care locations that were registered and active, as at 1 April for each financial year.

Location Type/Sector

1 April 2013

1 April 2014

1 April 2015

GPs/out-of-hours services

8,656

8,652

8,614

Adult Social Care

25,284

25,489

25,383

Table 2: Total number of GPs/out-of-hours locations and Adult Social Care locations with published inspections under CQC’s old inspection approach, by financial year and expressed as a percentage.

Location Type

Financial year report published

Number of locations with a published inspection report

% of total number of active locations with a published inspection report under the old approach

GPs/out-of-hours services

2013/14

1,591

18.38%

2014/15

527

6.09%

2015/161

6

0.07%

Adult Social Care

2013/14

23,098

91.35%

2014/15

8,713

34.18%

2015/161

122

0.48%

11 April 2015 - 15 October 2015 inclusive

Table 3: Total number of GPs/out-of-hours locations and Adult Social Care locations with published inspections under CQC’s new inspection approach, by financial year and expressed as a percentage.

Location type

Financial year report published

Number of locations with a published inspection report

% of total number of active locations with a published inspection report under the new approach

GPs/out-of-hours services

2014/15

916

10.59%

2015/161

1,349

15.66%

Adult Social Care

2014/15

2,721

10.66%

2015/161

6,118

24.10%



11 April 2015 - 15 October 2015 inclusive


NB: There is an overlap between the two approaches, due to the pilot phases of the new approach and also the lag between an inspection being carried out under the old approach and the publication date.

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