When is registration happening?
Find out about the key phases for the new registration system.
- What are the key dates for providers?
- How will you treat providers who are struggling to comply with new regulations in time?
- What period of time will be given to providers to comply with regulations?
What are the key dates for providers?
The key dates for providers are:
- In early December 2009, we published our guidance about compliance which was then updated in March 2010:
- Essential standards of quality and safety (which makes clear to providers the outcomes expected to be compliant with the regulations)
- Judgement framework (how we will judge compliance with the regulations)
- A summary of the regulations, outcomes, and steps in our Judgement framework
- From April 2010, all NHS trusts had to be registered with us.
- From April 2010, adult social care and independent healthcare providers began to apply for registration. Each provider is given a 28-day application window in which to complete the process.
- Between April 2010 and September 2010, we will talk to adult social care and independent healthcare providers about their applications and may ask them to supply more evidence to support them.
- From October 2010, all adult social care and independent healthcare providers must be registered with us under the Health and Social Care Act 2008. The Care Standards Act 2000 will be repealed.
- Primary dental care practices and independent ambulance services must be registered with us from April 2011.
- Primary medical services (general practices and out of hours services) must be registered with us from April 2012.
How will you treat providers who are struggling to comply with new regulations in time?
The new system requires registration against essential standards of quality and safety, so we will expect providers to be meeting these in order to be registered, or to show that they have systems and processes in place which mean that they are on track to meeting them within a short timescale.
However, we appreciate that this is a transition year and that it is a new registration system against a different set of standards, and we will encourage and support compliance.
What period of time will be given to providers to comply with regulations?
We recognise that minor lapses in performance can occur in any organisation, and we will take a proportionate view of these, strictly dependent on the seriousness of the non-compliance, its impact on people who use services and the time that it is reasonable to allow the provider to remedy the particular shortfall.
