Thursday, 7 December 2017

CQC Announces Eight New Local Health and Social Care System Reviews

The CQC has been asked to carry out eight new local health and social care system reviews.

These reviews, exercised under the Secretaries of State's Section 48 powers, will look specifically at how people move between health and social care, including delayed transfers of care, with a particular focus on people over 65 years old.

The areas to be reviewed are:
  • Bradford
  • Cumbria
  • Hampshire
  • Liverpool
  • Northamptonshire
  • Sheffield
  • Stockport
  • Wiltshire
David Behan, CQC Chief Executive, said: "We know there is wide variation in how health and social care systems work together, with some local systems working together effectively to ensure people get the right care, while others struggle to do so – these reviews will seek to examine why these levels of variation exist.

"Our intention is that the review findings will highlight what is working well and where there are opportunities for improving how the system works, enabling the sharing of good practice and identifying where additional support is needed to secure better outcomes for people using services."

These reviews will be carried out between February and April 2018. On completion, the findings will be reported to each local authority area’s Health and Wellbeing Board and published at www.cqc.org.uk/localsystemreviews.

The Process

The CQC will look at how well people move through the health and social care system, and what improvements could be made. The services they will be focusing on include:
  • NHS hospitals
  • NHS community services
  • GP practices
  • Care homes
  • Residential care services
  • Ambulance services
They will be:
  • listening to older people who use services, their families, carers and communities.
  • listening to people who commission and provide health and social care for older people.
  • analysing data about the quality of care services and outcomes for people.

These reviews follow on from the previous twelve area reviews carried out by the CQC, click here to view these online.

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