Mental Health Services: Standards

(asked on 25th September 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that all mental health units provide their vulnerable patients with a good level of care.


Answered by
Nadine Dorries Portrait
Nadine Dorries
This question was answered on 30th September 2019

Everybody has the right to receive safe, high-quality care. If care has fallen short of this, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) can use its powers to take action against those responsible.

The CQC has a key responsibility in the overall assurance of safety and quality of health and adult social care services in England. The latest annual State of Care report, published in October 2018, found that the majority of National Health Service mental health trusts and independent providers were continuing to provide good quality care.

We are working with the CQC to look at ways in which we can improve the way we hold large independent sector mental health providers with complex structures to account for quality and safety.

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