Health Services: Inspections

(asked on 15th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what meetings he has had with the Care Quality Commission on the implementation of its new inspection regime in relation to closed cultures; and how that new inspection regime relates to the Transforming Care agenda.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 9th April 2021

We are not aware of any specific meetings that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has had with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) that focussed on its new inspection regime in relation to closed cultures.

The Minister of State for Care has regular meetings with the CQC including discussions on closed cultures, as well as on Transforming Care more widely. I met with the CQC on the 29 June 2020 which included discussions around closed cultures.

CQC have been making significant improvements in how they understand and identify closed culture services, prioritising these services for monitoring. This supports improvements in the quality of care provided to people with a learning disability and autistic people, in line with the Transforming Care objectives.

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