Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what action they plan to take to ensure that general practitioner risk data are correct.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC is responsible for developing and consulting on its methodology for assessing whether providers are meeting the registration requirements.

The CQC has advised the following:

Following feedback from national and local stakeholders, and working with NHS England, the CQC last week completed a comprehensive review of the general practitioner intelligent monitoring data and, as a result, made a number of changes to the intelligent monitoring tool.

The CQC uses nationally available published data and will continue to work with the data providers to ensure that robust data are used.

The CQC is also reviewing the quality assurance of all of its outward facing analyses to ensure any necessary actions are taken to deliver quality data analysis in the future.