Care Quality Commission (CQC)

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1. Artificial intelligence in health and social care: CQC's role, expectations and plans (21 May 2026)

   • Regulatory issue
   • AI

   By Patient Safety Learning, 28 May

   • 0 comments
   • 170 views
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   • 28 May

2. Review of CQC Regulation 9A: visiting and accompanying in care homes, hospitals and hospices (18 March 2026)

   • Care home
   • Patient / family involvement
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Care home
     • Patient / family involvement
     • End of life care
     • Friend / visitor
     • Hospital ward

   By Patient Safety Learning, 2 April

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   • 274 views
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   • 2 April

3. CQC must speed up its efforts to improve or lose further credibility (HSJ, 18 March 2026)

   • Regulatory issue
   • Organisation / service factors

   By Patient Safety Learning, 18 March

   • 0 comments
   • 208 views
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   • 18 March

4. Care Quality Commission: The state of health care and adult social care in England 2024/25

   • Social Care
   • Organisational Performance
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Social Care
     • Organisational Performance
     • Regulatory issue
     • Healthcare
     • Innovation
     • Quality improvement
     • Workforce management

   By Sam, 24 October, 2025

   • 0 comments
   • 1,123 views
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   • 24 October, 2025

5. Better regulation, better care: Consultation on improving how we assess and rate providers (CQC, 16 October 2025)

   • Regulatory issue
   • Standards
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Regulatory issue
     • Standards
     • Organisational Performance
     • Consultation
     • Policies

   By Patient Safety Learning, 17 October, 2025

   • 0 comments
   • 963 views
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   • 17 October, 2025

6. CQC: Adult inpatient survey 2024 (9 September 2025)

   • Hospital corridor
   • Survey
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Hospital corridor
     • Survey
     • Organisational Performance
     • Staff factors
     • Discharge
     • Long waiting list
     • Feedback

   By Patient Safety Learning, 10 September, 2025

   • 0 comments
   • 804 views
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   • 10 September, 2025

7. To complain or not to complain to the CQC? (22 May 2025)

   • Complaint
   • Organisational Performance
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Complaint
     • Organisational Performance
     • Investigation

   By Patient Safety Learning, 24 June, 2025

   • 0 comments
   • 514 views
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   • 24 June, 2025

8. Care Quality Commission: Independent IT review (26 March 2025)

   • Technology
   • Organisation / service factors
   • (and 1 more)

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     • Technology
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Transformation

   By Patient Safety Learning, 27 March, 2025

   • 0 comments
   • 562 views
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   • 27 March, 2025

9. Learning from deaths: A review of the first year of NHS trusts implementing the national guidance (CQC March 2019)

   • Patient death
   • Systematic review
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Patient death
     • Systematic review
     • Organisational learning
     • System safety

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 17 March, 2025

   • 0 comments
   • 325 views
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   • 17 March, 2025

10. CQC: Maternity survey 2024 (28 November 2024)

    • Maternity
    • Organisational Performance
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Maternity
      • Organisational Performance
      • Pregnancy
      • Mental health

    By Patient Safety Learning, 29 November, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 1,517 views
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    • 29 November, 2024

11. CQC: The state of health care and adult social care in England 2023/24 (25 October 2024)

    • Healthcare
    • Social Care
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Healthcare
      • Social Care
      • Adult
      • Health inequalities
      • Children and Young People

    By Patient Safety Learning, 25 October, 2024

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    • 1,319 views
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    • 25 October, 2024

12. Independent report. Review into the operational effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission: full report (15 October 2024)

    • Regulatory issue
    • Organisational Performance
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Regulatory issue
      • Organisational Performance
      • Recommendations

    By Patient Safety Learning, 15 October, 2024

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    • 1,622 views
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    • 15 October, 2024

13. Professor Sir Mike Richards: Review of CQC's single assessment framework and its implementation (15 October 2024)

    • Regulatory issue
    • Organisational Performance
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Regulatory issue
      • Organisational Performance
      • Recommendations
      • Investigation

    By Patient Safety Learning, 15 October, 2024

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    • 1,009 views
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    • 15 October, 2024

14. The effect of external inspections on safety in acute hospitals in the National Health Service in England: A controlled interrupted time-series analysis (12 April 2019)

    • Organisational Performance
    • Organisation / service factors
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Organisational Performance
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Research
      • Quality improvement

    By Patient Safety Learning, 1 August, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 375 views
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    • 1 August, 2024

15. Review into the operational effectiveness of the Care Quality Commission: interim report (26 July 2024)

    • Leadership
    • Organisational culture
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Leadership
      • Organisational culture
      • Transparency
      • Speaking up
      • Staff engagement
      • Feedback

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 26 July, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 712 views
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    • 26 July, 2024

16. Bevan Brittan: CQC Update - Inactivity at the regulator of regulated activity (3 July 2024)

    • Regulatory issue
    • Organisation / service factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 9 July, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 394 views
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    • 9 July, 2024

17. CQC: Scoring masterclass video (20 June 2024)

    • Regulatory issue
    • Organisational Performance
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Regulatory issue
      • Organisational Performance
      • Assessment

    By Patient Safety Learning, 27 June, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 380 views
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    • 27 June, 2024

18. Progressing the Patient and Carer Race Equality Framework - Improving mental health care for racialised communities (16 May 2024)

    • Mental health
    • Race
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Mental health
      • Race
      • Health inequalities

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 28 May, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 581 views
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    • 28 May, 2024

19. Final guidance on visiting and accompanying in care homes, hospitals and hospices

    • Care home
    • Hospital ward
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Care home
      • Hospital ward
      • End of life care

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 8 April, 2024

    • 0 comments
    • 1,104 views
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    • 8 April, 2024

20. Bringing humanity into action — our revised human rights approach to regulation (CQC, December 2023)

    • Regulatory issue

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 20 December, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 652 views
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    • 20 December, 2023

21. CQC guidance: our new approach to assessment

    • Regulatory issue

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 20 November, 2023

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    • 651 views
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    • 20 November, 2023

22. CQC: Completion of local authority pilot assessments

    • Quality improvement
    • Regulatory issue

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 20 November, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 605 views
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    • 20 November, 2023

23. CQC: State of Care 2022/23

    • Regulatory issue
    • Organisation / service factors
    • (and 12 more)

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      • Regulatory issue
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Healthcare
      • Social Care
      • Health inequalities
      • Ambulance
      • Primary care
      • GP
      • Lack of resources
      • Long waiting list
      • Community care
      • Carer
      • Staff factors
      • Maternity

    By Patient Safety Learning, 20 October, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 1,458 views
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    • 20 October, 2023

24. Improvement cultures in health and adult social care settings: A rapid literature review for the Care Quality Commission (May 2023)

    • Research
    • Organisational culture
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Research
      • Organisational culture
      • Regulatory issue
      • Healthcare
      • Social Care
      • Organisation / service factors

    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 October, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 616 views
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    • 5 October, 2023

25. CQC: Adult inpatient survey 2022 (12 September 2023)

    • Survey
    • Patient
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Survey
      • Patient
      • Organisational Performance

    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 September, 2023

    • 0 comments
    • 1,723 views
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    • 13 September, 2023