Care Quality Commission branded “not fit for purpose” as review finds “significant failings”

Health secretary Wes Streeting has said that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) is “not fit for purpose,” after an interim review of the regulator of health and social care in England found significant failings, including a lack of clinical expertise among inspectors, inconsistent assessments, and problems with the IT system.1The review, led by Penny Dash, chair of the North West London Integrated Care Board, found that around one in five services had never been rated, despite some of them having registered with the CQC more than five years ago. It also noted that some organisations had not been re-inspected for several years, with one non-specialist acute care hospital going uninspected for a decade.Dash warned that these failings meant the CQC was unable to consistently and effectively identify poor performance at hospitals, general practices, and care homes.The review has outlined five key recommendations to start to fix the regulator, including rapidly…
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