Consultation on our assessments of quality 2010-11

This consultation looks at our proposals for assessing quality in 2010-11 and beyond.


The Care Quality Commission will use many methods and tools to achieve its aim of 'making care better for people', including carrying out a programme of assessments of quality.

Our assessments of quality include our powers under the Health and Social Care Act to carry out periodic reviews, special reviews and studies and to publish information and reports about our findings.

Our assessments of quality will:

  • complement our registration programme, which assesses and enforces essential standards of quality;
  • assess the quality of care over and above those essential standards and drive improvement.

They will also enable us to assess the performance of commissioners and the outcomes they secure for local populations.

For both commissioners and providers they will provide publicly available information for individuals using or choosing care services and for organisations delivering or commissioning those services.

This consultation details how we propose to assess the quality of:

  • Councils as commissioners
  • PCTs as commissioners
  • NHS trusts and PCTs as providers
  • Adult social care organisations as providers

It also outlines our plans for how we will report our findings and the special reviews we propose to carry out in 2010/11.

Please take the time to consider our consultation document and give us your feedback.

The consultation runs until 27 April 2010 and we will publish our final plans later in 2010.

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Send us your responses

Email your feedback to: assessmentconsult@cqc.org.uk

Post your feedback to:

Assessment Consultation
Care Quality Commission
103-105 Bunhill Row
FREEPOST Lon 15399
London
EC1B 1QW