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Government acts after report highlights failings at regulator - significant failings have been found at the health and social care regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC)

Dental

BDA - What's New at the CQC? What’s new at the CQC? (bda.org)

DHSC - Dental recovery plan: everything you need to know: Dental recovery plan: everything you need to know. – Department of Health and Social Care Media Centre (blog.gov.uk)

GDC – New rules and fees for international registration: New rules and fees for international registration come into effect on 9 March (gdc-uk.org)

GOV.UK – Faster, simpler and fairer: our plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry: Faster, simpler and fairer: our plan to recover and reform NHS dentistry - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

GP & HC

Cases of Pertussis (whooping cough) have continued to increase in the first 4 months of 2024 with a total of 4,793 confirmed cases reported in England between January to April 2024. The UK Health security Agency has released Guidance on the management of cases of pertussis in England during the re-emergence of pertussis in 2024 as well as Testing for pertussis in primary care.

Important Update

We are delighted to announce an important update to the Compliance Tools (Key Questions) section of your QCS Compliance Centre. This enhancement will not only better align your policies and procedures to the quality statements, ensuring you only see the most relevant policies for each quality statement, but it will make sharing documents during the inspection process a whole lot easier.

While we acknowledge that the scope of an inspection can change at any time, this new approach means that when you are notified of the quality statements likely to be covered in your CQC inspection, you'll have a clear understanding of which policies the CQC is most likely to request.

What will change?

We will be making changes to the quality statements in each policy, reducing them to just one or two. Whilst we know there are often crossovers in many of the quality statements, we want to make sure they are allocated to the policies that the CQC expects to find them in.

When will this change take place?

This won’t happen all at once. We’ll be carrying this out gradually, starting in mid-September 2024 with completion anticipated by the end of October 2024.

What impact will this have?

This will not impact you at all. You will still be able to access policies in the usual way. The only difference you will notice over time is that less quality statements will be allocated to each policy.

NHS – Self-referral for tests and appointments for hundreds of thousands of patients:

NHS England » NHS self-referral for tests and appointments for hundreds of thousands of patients

BMA – GP contract changes England 2023/24: GP contract changes England 2023/24 (bma.org.uk)

CQC – What we will inspect: types of inspection (GP practices): What we will inspect: types of inspection (GP practices) - Care Quality Commission (cqc.org.uk)

GOV.UK - New Mpox guidance released on 14th August 2024:Operational mpox (monkeypox) HCID case definition: Operational mpox (monkeypox) HCID case definition - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). This guidance is for healthcare workers and describes the operational case definitions to determine a suspected or confirmed case of Clade I mpox (monkeypox).

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