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<p>NHS Improvement regulates all independent providers of National Health Service-funded
care, including ambulance services, unless they are exempt for the following reasons:</p><p>-
the providers are not required to register with the Care Quality Commission (CQC);</p><p>-
the providers are small providers of NHS-funded healthcare services whose annual turnover
from providing NHS services is less than £10 million;</p><p>- they are providers of
primary medical and dental services;</p><p>- they are providers of NHS continuing
healthcare and NHS-funded nursing care; or</p><p>- the provider is an NHS trust which
will only be licensed when they are authorised as an NHS foundation trust.</p><p>All
independent providers of ambulance services must be registered with the Care Quality
Commission (CQC) and satisfy their registration requirements. As part of this work
the CQC are inspecting all independent ambulance services by the end of March 2018,
and are already sharing findings from these inspections with the sector in order to
drive improvement. We are working closely with the CQC and will consider any recommendations
they make.</p><p>Where an independent ambulance provider is working on behalf of an
NHS ambulance trust the independent provider will also be subject to continuous monitoring
by the trust, to ensure they are delivering to the same rigorous safety and quality
standards and inspections as NHS ambulance services.</p>
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