Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Part of M6 – in the House of Commons at 10:35 am on 10 December 2015.

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Photo of Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Hunt The Secretary of State for Health 10:35, 10 December 2015

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. It is worth saying that the tragedy that sparked this report happened before the new CQC inspection regime had got under way. The old CQC regime was rather a tick-box approach, partly because the people doing the inspections were often not doctors who could make peer-review judgments about the quality of services. If someone is not a doctor, there is a tendency to want to tick yes or no in reply to a question rather than to deal with the underlying issues. Having judgment in our inspections will be a very important step forward.