Clause 8
Health Bill [Lords]
1:00 pm
Mike O'Brien (Minister of State (Health Services), Department of Health; North Warwickshire, Labour)
With regard to the role of the Care Quality Commission and quality accounts, the commission receives a lot of data that will go into the quality accounts, and it will, of course, check that data. Other data, which it is not the commission’s role to check and oversee, will be put into quality accounts on a local basis. That is the responsibility of the organisation that puts that data in. The data required to be submitted to the CQC, which may well be in excess of the data that are required in the core of the information that has to be in the quality accounts, will be looked at by the CQC. However, I want to make it clear that there may be other things that the trust or another NHS organisation puts in that it will not be the responsibility of the CQC to audit, check or evaluate.