Care Homes: Mortality Rates

(asked on 3rd September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the Care Quality Commission discloses mortality rates for individual care homes.


Answered by
Lord Bethell Portrait
Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 7th October 2020

The Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) mission to keep people safe is always at the heart of its decisions. The CQC has taken the decision not to publish location level death data without context, since this would not provide an assessment of quality or safety of individual homes currently facing an unprecedented challenge. Where the CQC has concerns about quality or safety, it will inspect the service and publish their findings. It has recently written to all adult social care providers to remind them that they have a duty to be transparent and share appropriate information with families about outbreaks and deaths. The CQC is keeping its current position not to disclose provider-level deaths data under review.

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