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438977

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date	16/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether the Care Quality Commission plans to introduce a public review system for care homes.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	20517
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2016 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England.</p><br /><p>The CQC is responsible for developing and consulting on its methodology for inspecting providers.</p><br /><p>The CQC’s inspection regime provides a comprehensive assessment of provider’s performance. During an inspection, the CQC asks five questions of every service and provider; are they safe, effective, caring, well led and responsive to people’s needs.</p><br /><p>The CQC’s inspections take into account the views of patients and service users. Prior to carrying out an inspection, the CQC considers any complaints or concerns from members of the public as part of its intelligence on where and when to inspect. During an inspection the CQC gathers the views of people who use services so it gets a full picture of the level of service at a provider.</p><br /><p>Following an inspection the CQC rates a provider on a four point scale running from outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate. This gives patients and the public a fair, balanced and easy to understand assessment of performance of a provider.</p><br /><p>These new rigorous inspections ensure that the full picture of services at a particular provider is known and published on the CQC website, and if required, the provider knows what it must do to improve.</p><br /> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 08/01/2016 15:56:21 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

438979

registered interest
date	16/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will bring forward proposals to give the Care Quality Commission additional powers to sanction care providers which are persistently non-compliant with inspection regimes.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	20519
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/01/2016 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has a full range of enforcement powers that it can use where providers are not meeting the registration requirements.</p><br /><p>The Department has no plans to give the CQC additional powers to sanction care providers which are persistently non-compliant with inspection regimes.</p><br /><p>The CQC’s inspection regime provides a comprehensive assessment of provider’s performance against the fundamental standards. Following an inspection the CQC rates a provider on a four point scale running from outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate. This gives patients and the public a fair, balanced and easy to understand assessment of the performance of a provider.</p><br /><p>Since 1 April 2015, any adult social care provider rated “Inadequate” by the CQC has been placed in Special Measures. Such providers will have six months to improve. If they fail to do so, their registration may be cancelled and they will exit the market.</p> answering member constituency Ipswich answering member printed Ben Gummer question first answered 08/01/2016 15:37:42 answering member 3988 label Biography information for Ben Gummer
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

438982

registered interest
date	16/12/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will research the causes of systemic failure at private care homes run by the same provider.
tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
uin	20484
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2016 answer text <p>The Department is working in partnership with local authorities, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and the provider sector to understand the viability of the care home sector as a whole, including any issues that may be affecting a care home provider’s ability to deliver quality services at any of the locations in which it operates.</p><br /><p>The Department receives inspection reports of all adult social care providers from the CQC. These reports state publicly why a service may be rated as Inadequate. In addition, the CQC’s annual State of Care report summarises issues across the entire care sector, from which lessons can be and are drawn, including those concerning providers with more than one home.</p><br /><p>Since 1 April 2015, any service rated Inadequate by the CQC has been placed in special measures. Such services will have six months to improve. If they fail to do so, their registration may be cancelled and they will exit the market. If they show significant improvement after six months, they will have a further six months to demonstrate that they can maintain that improvement. If they do, they will leave special measures. If they do not, they will exit the market.</p><br /><p>People can be confident that there is now a strict time limit under which providers must improve or cease to operate.</p><br /><p>The CQC will continue use its full range of enforcement powers, including removing providers immediately from the market if necessary. It will also use the special measures system to help tackle those services which, whilst not being so poor as to warrant immediate closure, have ratings that vary continually between Inadequate and Requires Improvement.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 11/01/2016 17:15:25 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

432930

registered interest
date	27/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 29 October 2015 to Question 12813, what assessment he has made of the accessibility, clarity and ease of comparison of the care home ratings referred to; and if he will encourage the Care Quality Commission to develop a ratings table to increase transparency of that data.
tabling member constituency	Bristol North West
tabling member printed	Charlotte Leslie
uin	18036
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2015 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social acre in England. The CQC publishes the results of its new inspections regime including ratings on its website to help people choose care.</p><br /><p>The CQC website provides a search facility for the services registered with it, including care homes. It is possible to search by name of provider or post code area. The results may be viewed as a list or on an interactive map and may also be downloaded on a spreadsheet. In this way, the CQC provides flexible access to the most up to date information of the sectors it inspects.</p><br /><p>The Department expects the CQC to consider how it presents information to the public to ensure it is provided in a transparent and meaningful way and to keep its presentation of information under review.</p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 03/12/2015 17:12:22 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	3933 label Biography information for Charlotte Leslie

429073

registered interest
date	18/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the fit and proper test for individuals running care homes for the elderly; and what plans he has to make changes to that test.
tabling member constituency	Hartlepool
tabling member printed	Mr Iain Wright
uin	16810
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/11/2015 answer text <p>All providers of regulated health and adult social care activities in England are required to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and to meet a set of registration requirements relating to safety and quality. The CQC has a range of enforcement powers that it can use when these standards are not met. These registration requirements include the fitness of service providers where the provider is an individual or partnership, as well as the fitness of registered managersand the fitness of staff. Since April 2015, the directors of all registered service providers have also been required to meet a fit and proper person requirement. The registered provider is responsible for ensuring that these requirements are met. The Department keeps the requirements for registration with the CQC under review. There are no current plans to make changes to the fit and proper person requirements that apply to registered providers.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 25/11/2015 14:49:55 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
tabling member	1478 label Biography information for Mr Iain Wright

427971

registered interest
date	11/11/2015
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Homes: Standards
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many (1) care homes, and (2) home care providers, are currently registered with the Care Quality Commission, and what were the equivalent numbers for each of the past five years for which information is available.
tabling member printed	Lord Warner
uin	HL3561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/11/2015 answer text <p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of Health and Adult Social Care in England and is responsible for the registration and inspection of providers. The CQC has provided the following information.</p><br /><p>As at 12 November 2015, there are 16,912 care home locations and 8,392 domiciliary care services registered with the CQC.</p><br /><p>Number of care home and home care agencies registered at 1 April 2010 and active care home and domiciliary care service locations since 1 April 2011:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><br></p></td></tr><tr><td colspan="3"><p><br> Number of Registered Services / Active Locations</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Date</p></td><td><p>Care Homes</p></td><td><p>Domiciliary Care Services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2010</p></td><td><p>18,202</p></td><td><p>5,539</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2011</p></td><td><p>16,944</p></td><td><p>5,425</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2012</p></td><td><p>17,823</p></td><td><p>6,988</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2013</p></td><td><p>17,523</p></td><td><p>7,541</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2014</p></td><td><p>17,354</p></td><td><p>7,913</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1 April 2015</p></td><td><p>17,079</p></td><td><p>8,221</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member printed Lord Prior of Brampton question first answered 24/11/2015 13:43:24 answering member 127 label Biography information for Lord Prior of Brampton
tabling member	1732 label Biography information for Lord Warner