NHS: Managers

Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 27 February 2018.

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Photo of Diana R. Johnson Diana R. Johnson Labour, Kingston upon Hull North

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on how many occasions the Care Quality Commission (a) received concerns from third parties about an alleged lack of fitness of a trust director and (b) notified the relevant trust of those concerns since the Fit and Proper Persons Regulations came into force.

Photo of Caroline Dinenage Caroline Dinenage Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) which assesses the Fit and Proper Persons Requirement (FPPR) as part of its overall inspection and assessment framework has provided the following response.

Since the FPPR came into force the Care Quality Commission has:

- Received concerns from third parties1 about an alleged lack of fitness of a trust director on 62 occasions; and

- Of those concerns received, 37 were notified to the relevant trust.

The CQC’s practice from November 2014 (when the regulation came into effect) was to triage referrals to trusts, which explains why not all were passed on to the trusts. In the CQC’s new FPPR guidance of 25 January 2018, the CQC’s policy intention is to pass all referrals covered by the regulation to the trusts.

The 25 referrals that were not forwarded to the trusts may be due to one or more of the following reasons:

- The individuals referred were not covered by the FPPR regulation;

- The Director(s) had left the trust;

- There was no substantive evidence to support the allegations;

- The evidence submitted was not in relation to FPPR;

- The CQC was waiting on an anti-fraud investigation/Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman investigation; and

- Consent was not received from the referrer to share the information with the trust.

Note:

1Third parties do not include CQC inspectors.

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