A new job for the CQC (HSJ, 30 May 2025)

Summary

To make integrated care a success, someone needs to monitor the gaps between services, and the Care Quality Commission is the best pick for it, writes Jacob Lant in this HSJ opinion piece.

It may be an unpopular view, but if we are going to make a success of integrated care, then someone really needs to be watching what happens in the gaps between services. Having already developed an approach for reviewing how local systems work, the CQC is arguably best placed to pick up this function.