 We would like to develop our understanding of how providers of maternity care have taken on board and started to action the key findings from our 2021 Safety, equity and engagement in maternity services report.
The report set out recommendations to focus on four areas:
- Leadership
- Voices and choices
- Engagement
- Data and risk
We would also like to understand the extent to which the four actions of the Chief Midwifery Officer to support Black and minority ethnic women and women living in deprived areas during the pandemic have been embedded into care delivery.
Log in to our online participation platform to complete this short survey. Response are anonymous. What you tell us will inform this year’s State of Care report as well as add to our wider insight on this topic.
 The Department of Health and Social Care has urged the general public, people of all ages with lived experience of mental health conditions and those who support people with mental ill-health to respond to a 12-week call for evidence.
This is to inform a new 10-year mental health plan and a refreshed national suicide prevention plan seeking views on what can be improved within the current service, particularly in light of the pandemic which has led to record levels of people seeking treatment.
Help shape a new advice service for developers and adopters of AI technology in healthcare
 We are looking for developers and adopters of artificial intelligence (AI) in health and care and some data-driven technologies to help shape the development of an advice service. The service will offer information and guidance on legal and ethical use of data, regulation and health technology assessment (HTA). The project is a collaboration between the CQC and other national bodies. We have developed a prototype for developers and adopters of AI and are now looking to test and improve it through user research.
Transfer of Care Hubs (which may have a different name locally, e.g. Discharge Care Hubs) are a key part of hospital discharge infrastructure. Usually based around an acute hospital site, a Transfer of Care Hub links relevant services across sectors to coordinate care and support to aid someone’s hospital discharge and subsequent recovery.
The National Directory of Transfer of Care Hubs provides contact details and operating hours for Hubs across the country. Its purpose is to facilitate communication between partners both within and between local health and social care systems.
The Directory is available on the Future NHS Collaboration Platform. A Future NHS account is required to access the Directory and this can be requested by emailing england.d2a@nhs.net with your name, organisation and e-mail address, noting that you are requesting access in order to view the National Directory of Transfer of Care Hubs.
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We’ve published our updated guidance on the Scope of registration. This replaces the previous version which was last published in March 2015.
The Scope guidance helps all registered providers to decide whether they need to register with us. The updated guidance covers:
- who and what needs to be registered with CQC
- what each regulated activity includes - and what it doesn’t include
- which regulated activities health and care providers are most likely to need to register for.
Although the regulations themselves are the same, a lot has changed since 2015. The updates reflect the changes in the way health and social care is now delivered and how regulated activities apply to some new types of services. It explains how these services come under the regulated activities to make sure we’re registering and regulating providers to keep people safe.
We’ve also updated a lot of the language, to make the guidance clearer and more accessible, and improved the format so it’s easier to use on the improved website.
- In March, we held a series of coproduction sessions to help the development of our approach to Integrated Care System oversight and Local Authority assurance. In this video, we playback what we heard through those sessions, highlighting how that feedback has informed and influenced our thinking so far, and outline the next steps.
- Our podcast series, CQC Connect, is now available on Youtube with subtitles.
- Sign-up to take part in CQC User Research opportunities
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