The CQC fees scheme for providers, which covers our costs of provider regulation, including registration, monitoring and inspection will not change next year – in 2023/24.
This means that, for many providers, your fees will have remained the same for the last four years, unless you have changed your registration – for example, by adding locations or service types.
As in previous years, NHS trusts, NHS GPs and community social care providers may also see a change to their fees from April 2023 (up or down), as we update the variables (turnover, list size, number of people using the service) used to calculate their fees.
Since there is no change to our fees scheme, we will not be consulting on fees for provider regulation this year.
We had previously shared that we would introduce our new regulatory approach in January 2023. Following a full review of our timeline we have decided this will not happen until later in 2023.
Earlier this year we laid out our approach to how and when we would take the next steps in delivering our strategy. Following a review, we have shared an update on our website setting out the approach we will take in 2023.
We've published two new episodes of our podcast, CQC Connect, focusing on the Urgent and Emergency Care pathway.
The first episode features guest Adrian Boyle, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, and focuses on patient flow through the system.
In the second episode our host is joined by Brendan Lloyd, CQC's National Professional Advisor for Ambulance Services, and Andy Swinburn, Director of Paramedicine at the Welsh Ambulance Service Trust. The guests discuss alternatives to the emergency department and the development of the paramedic profession.
Subscribe to CQC Connect wherever you get your podcasts.
In a new blog, Mary Cridge, Director of Adult Social Care and Mandy Williams, interim Director of Integration, Inequalities and Improvement at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) update on the work we have been doing to develop our approach to local authority and integrated care system assessments.
We've also published a podcast in which CQC colleagues and the local authorities involved in the test and learn activity reflect on the experience and shared learning.
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The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has been commissioned by the National Wound Care Strategy Programme to develop a generic information standard that can help improve the assessment, prevention, management, and treatment of pressure ulcers, lower limb (leg and foot) and surgical wounds for children and adults.
They'd like your views on their draft information standard which is based on feedback so far. The survey takes about 10 minutes and closes 9am on 3 January 2023.
About Me information is the most important details that a person wants to share with professionals in health and social care. The Professional Record Standards Body (PRSB) has published a standard outlining how About Me information should be documented and shared in health and care records.
They've launched a campaign to raise awareness - you can join in using #CareAboutMe. It highlights the benefits of having an About Me profile in a persons record, especially those from vulnerable groups and people with a learning disability.
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