Health written question – answered at on 7 June 2011.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will estimate the average amount of Care Quality Commission staff time needed to conduct a service review for an (a) NHS trust, (b) independent hospital and (c) adult social care provider, broken down by (i) time for site visit, (ii) review and assessment of (A) information held by the Care Quality Commission on the organisation and (B) completed provider compliance assessments and (iii) completion and publication of a report.
In terms of delivering its regulatory functions, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an independent body and is therefore responsible for determining the time needed to undertake reviews of registered services in order to carry out its functions efficiently and effectively.
The time taken to carry out a service review varies enormously depending on the circumstances, size and nature of the service. We are advised by the CQC that the information requested is not gathered centrally.
The CQC is, however, currently conducting an activity-based management review with a sample of compliance staff to study the time demands of the different parts of the regulatory process. Once complete, the findings will be used to establish the value of activity-based information in carrying out the commission’s regulatory functions, and will inform the CQC’s ongoing resource planning.
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