 Four red hands raised, with the words 'Your say' floating above them. GP innovation to reduce health inequalities We invite general practice providers to take part in a short survey, which should take about 5 minutes, on our âUsing and sharing innovation to reduce health inequalitiesâ guidance. We use the term âinnovationâ to include invention (creating new ideas, products, services or models of care), and adoption (using what has worked elsewhere and helping share good practice). Safety through learning We're developing our approach to 'learning culture'. We'd like your feedback to ensure we take the best approach to assessing providers on this topic. Share your views and take this short survey today. How well do you understand how CQC is changing? We're introducing a new regulatory model based on a single assessment framework, which we have started to use across the country. Alongside this work we're also starting to roll out our new provider portal. In 2023, we launched a communication campaign to ensure all health & social care providers understood these changes, what it means for them and how they can prepare. To help measure the success of this campaign, we'd like to know how well you understand these changes in 2024. Share your feedback through this short survey.  Text at the top of the image reads: "#ShareForBetterCare", under text an image of a nurse talking to a elderly woman in a wheelchair, right-hand side of the image text reads in a speech bubble: "Together we can improve health and adult social care". Right-hand corner text reads: Care Quality Commission In the coming weeks we will be launching our new campaign 'Share for Better Care' alongside Healthwatch England, the Race Equality Foundation, National Dignity Council, and the Royal Association for Deaf People.  The campaign, which aims to increase the range and volume of care experiences that people share with us, builds on the success of our Because We All Care campaign which we ran between 2020 until 2023. The Share for Better Care campaign centres around research and audience insight and focuses on engaging people whose voices are seldom heard, especially people from - People in ethnic minority groups
- Autistic people and people with a learning disabilityÂ
- Disabled people with physical or sensory impairmentsÂ
- lower-income groups.Â
We will provide a campaign toolkit for you to help support the campaign. If youâd like to get involved by sharing a story about the importance of feedback where you work â please get in touch!  A selection of different cartoon people in different windows on a computer screen. The Nursing and Midwifery Councilâs Covid-19 temporary register will close permanently on 31 March 2024. Thousands of people stepped forward to support essential health and care services during the pandemic by returning to nursing and midwifery practice with temporary registration. Their contribution made a vital difference to peopleâs lives. Professionals will not be able to practise with temporary registration after the end of March 2024. The NMC is encouraging everyone on the temporary register who wishes to continue practising as a nurse or midwife after 31 March to apply to move to the permanent register â the deadline for this is 14 March. -
We have reordered the guidance section on our website - the changes that we have made are mainly in response to feedback that we have received from providers; there is no new content as part of this work. The main source of information and guidance for providers, local authorities and integrated care systems is now a new 'Guidance and regulation' landing page - you'll find it in the menu at the top of our site. We have also made it easier to download key sections as PDF files, in response to providers telling us that they wanted to be able to access information on our new assessments all in one place. This work is part of an ongoing series of improvements to user journeys to make them as clear and simple as we can, and to make it easier for providers to see when guidance has been updated. -
We have now updated the form that health and social care providers should use to notify us of the outcome of an application to deprive a person of their liberty. Providers must notify CQC as soon as they know the outcome of an application, this includes Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) applications and applications made to the Court of Protection. The updated form now incorporates an additional field prompting providers to specify the date on which the outcome of the application was received or the date of its withdrawal. Please ensure that any locally stored copies of the notification form are updated to reflect this latest change, when applicable. We have also updated the notification form in our new CQC portal, for those organisations that have been invited to use our new system. -
We're working with the Point of Care Foundation and National Voices on a project supporting integrated care systems (ICSs) to reduce health inequalities. Over the next 12 months, the project, funded by the Regulators' Pioneer Fund, will be developing a framework for ICSs to self-assess how well they reduce health inequalities. â Read more on our website. -
'Early help' supports children and families as soon as problems emerge, and can prevent children from coming to harm. Together with Ofsted and His Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, we've developed a report that shows how services can work together. Find out more in this video. -
The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) has recently launched a new prescribing support guide for healthcare professionals. - In the latest in our blog series reflecting on the learning from the Supported Living Improvement Coalition, Stefan Kallee, Senior Specialist for People with a learning disability and autistic people, looks at the first of 4 key factors that affect quality in supported living. Read the blog, and share your thoughts on our online participation platform.
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