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<p>The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult
social care in England. The CQC has provided the following information.</p><p> </p><p>
</p><p> </p><p>The CQC published its first round of Intelligent Monitoring for general
practices on 17 November 2014. Intelligent Monitoring analyses a range of indicators
(including surveys and official statistics) to create priority bands for inspection.
The bandings are then used to help inform where the CQC prioritise its inspections.
The CQC will also use the indicators to raise questions about the quality of care;
they will not be used on their own to make final judgements about the quality of care.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CQC informed all providers of the launch of general practitioner
Intelligent Monitoring with an email that was sent out on 14 November 2014 (with no
data included). All band 1 GP practices received a separate email on 14 November 2014
informing them that they were in the highest priority band for inspection.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CQC engaged with approximately 400 GP practices prior to
the launch of GP Intelligent Monitoring, including sharing the data and hosting a
series of meetings. A national media release was sent out on the morning of 17 November.</p><p>
</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The CQC will listen and respond to concerns raised by GP practices.
The CQC’s formal appeals processes are for the regulatory judgements the CQC makes
and Intelligent Monitoring, is not a regulatory judgement. This comparative information
is already in the public domain and known to the practice. The CQC publish this information
to be open and transparent about what it knows about providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p>The CQC plans to update this information every three months so that it can
continue to respond to issues as they emerge and to share these with providers and
the public. The CQC will be undertaking additional testing and engagement to continually
improve indicators to inform this work, and will align its definitions of indicators
as far as possible with those used by partner bodies such as NHS England and Public
Health England.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Within the next two years, the CQC will
have inspected and rated every general practice in England as Outstanding, Good, Requires
Improvement, or Inadequate to help people make informed choices about their care and
encourage improvement in quality.</p><p> </p>
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