Health Services: Private Sector
(asked on 18th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many non-NHS providers have registered with the Care Quality Commission in each year since 2010.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. The CQC is responsible for registering providers and assessing whether providers are meeting the required levels of safety and quality.
The CQC provided the following information:
There is no legal definition of a non-National Health Service provider. The legal terms used to cover NHS trusts, foundation trusts and special health authorities are “NHS bodies” and “NHS providers” as defined in the Health and Social Care Act 2008. The data for this response has been obtained by excluding providers that are classified as NHS providers or NHS bodies from the list of all providers of health and social care registered with CQC.
Number of non NHS Providers Registered Per Financial Year since 1 October 2010 | ||||||
Financial Year | Independent Ambulance | Independent Healthcare Organisation | Primary Dental Care | Primary Medical Services | Social Care Organisation | Total |
2010-11 | 898 |
| 5 | 11,1792 | 12,082 | |
2011-12 | 249 | 425 | 8,4512 | 54 | 1,911 | 11,090 |
2012-13 | 29 | 274 | 522 | 11 | 1,111 | 1,947 |
2013-14 | 30 | 237 | 639 | 7,6712 | 1,054 | 9,631 |
2014-151 | 24 | 178 | 636 | 108 | 796 | 1,742 |
Total | 332 | 2,012 | 10,248 | 7,849 | 16,051 | 36,492 |
Source: CQC database as at 2 March 2015
Notes:
1From 1 April 2014 to 1 March 2015
2The increase in figures is due to the initial transition of these sectors to within the remit of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.
Regulation of non-NHS providers under the Health and Social Care Act began on 1 October 2010 so numbers have been provided from that date.
The numbers given are non-NHS providers that registered and also include non-NHS providers that are now deregistered. A single provider may operate one or more locations.
A provider can change sector classification over time which explains why some primary medical services providers appear to have registered before 2013 when that sector transitioned to within the remit of the Health and Social Care Act.