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‘Tell us about your care’ North West pilot launches

1 May 2012

We have launched a pilot project in the North West of England to gather structured feedback from members of the public about their experiences of care and assess how valuable it is to our regulatory work.

Targeted review of cosmetic surgery providers

25 April 2012

Following a targeted review, inspection reports have now been published on seven large individual providers of cosmetic surgery.

Results of the latest inpatient survey

24 April 2012

Read our findings from the Inpatient survey 2011, which looked at the experiences of over 70,000 people who were admitted to NHS hospitals around England.

Care home worker sentenced

13 April 2012

A care home worker who abused a resident at a home in London has been sentenced today.

Equality objectives published today

5 April 2012

Our equality objectives detail how we consider equality issues when we regulate services and how we perform as an employer.

Experts by experience make their mark

4 April 2012

One of the key features of CQC’s themed review of learning disability services has been the involvement in the inspections of experts by experience– people with personal experience of these services as service users or family carers.

CQC has moved to a new four region structure

2 April 2012

We have moved to a new four region structure to support the improvements to our model.

Second annual report on the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards published today

27 March 2012

Some care homes and hospitals are still not meeting their obligations on liberty safeguards, according to our second annual report.

Inspection changes underway

26 March 2012

Next week, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is starting to introduce improvements to the way it inspects health and social care services. The changes follow a consultation by CQC on how it regulates.

CQC inspects termination of pregnancy services

23 March 2012

The Secretary of State asked CQC, as the regulatory agency with direct powers to inspect and seize evidence across the NHS and independent sector, to conduct these inspections as a priority.

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