CQC seeks views on its vision for the future

The CQC has changed the way it works over the past three years and in its consultation document ‘Shaping the future’ it sets out a vision for the future regulation of health and social care.

The way health and social care is delivered has changed and is continuing to change, with increasing numbers of acute NHS trusts providing social care, more GP federations and technology playing a greater role in the way services are delivered - coupled with the demographic challenge of increasing numbers of older people with needs that will be met by more than one service. In this consultation document, the CQC sets out proposals that respond to these new ways of working. 

A key element of these proposals is an approach called ‘implementing a single shared view of quality’, which builds on a single framework for measuring quality. This framework can be used to help providers better understand their quality of care and to share this information with the CQC - information that can then be checked against what is already known about the provider, including information from inspection. The transparency that the CQC’s judgements bring to quality would be even greater if the whole system looked at quality in the same way.