Health Insurance: Private Sector
(asked on 14th July 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government whether they plan to expand the remit of the Care Quality Commission to include oversight of private medical insurers to ensure that insurer-led decisions do not impact clinical autonomy or patient safety.
This question was answered on 28th July 2025
The role of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is to regulate health and adult social care providers in England, for regulated activities set out in schedule one of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
There are no plans to extend the role of the CQC to regulate private medical insurers.