Care Quality Commission

I’m now at least an inch shorter than last week, having walked for hours around the Dentistry Show at the NEC, Birmingham. My legs still ache, and a spot of…

There is currently considerable interest in seeing an improvement in the detection and management of malnutrition in care homes for the older person. At the same time there are national…

The concept is fairly simple. Mother and father share caring (or the trials) in the early months of a child’s life. It should foster bonding and stronger families. Ultimately, perhaps,…

OK, hands up. How many of us have taken part in practice meetings and had the time dominated by finding more problems than we started with, or the meeting deteriorating…

Enhanced Service Scheme We’ve just received notification of this year’s Minor Surgery Enhanced Service Scheme to sign up to by the end of April. Part of the specification requires us…

From 1st April, 2015 if you’ve been awarded a rating by the CQC under their new inspection regime, you will be required to publically display it. The information you display…

I often use this blog to report on nutritional standards in care homes from the point of view of the service users or care home. But how may it be…

The CQC rates practices against particular population groups The CQC now inspects and rates practices against six population groups – older people; those with long-term conditions; mother’s, babies and children;…