To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will direct the Care Quality Commission to assess the potential benefits of and include in their inspections questions on (a) training and (b) other provisions that care homes have put in place to assist in identifying pain in people less able to communicate in their assessments.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. Under the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (the 2008 Act) all providers of regulated activities, including national health service and independent providers, have to register with the CQC and meet a set of requirements of safety and quality.
(a) Under the registration requirements, employers must ensure that their employees are adequately trained to perform their duties.
(b) In addition, care providers should encourage service users, or those acting on their behalf, to understand the care or treatment choices available and discuss the balance of risks and benefits involved in any particular course of care or treatment. CQC also requires the provider to encourage the service user to express their views on what is important to them in relation to their care or treatment.
It is an offence if a provider fails to comply with the requirements and under the 2008 Act, and CQC has a wide range of enforcement powers that it can use if the provider is not compliant.
It is CQC's responsibility to develop and consult on its methodology for assessing whether providers are meeting the registration requirements.
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The Fundamental Standards are intended to be common-sense statements that describe the basic requirements that providers should always meet, and set out the outcomes that patients or care service users should always expect. All care providers registered with CQC will have to meet them. The consultation closes on
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