The NHS: Where does all the money go?
Part 2a: the Care Quality Commission
In Part 2 of the series, we looked at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), a national body part of the NHS.
The NHS: Where does all the money go?
We start exploring the organisational layout of the NHS as reported to Parliament and reproduced in our first post.
Just to remind you: CQC is England's independent regulator of health and adult social care. It ensures that health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourages service improvement. It monitors, inspects, and regulates services and publishes what it finds. Where they see poor care, they use certain powers to take action.
Our TTE Recommendations were:
“In October 2022, we recommended appointing an advocate for each patient, especially the frail, disadvantaged, or disabled. Christine’s law; lest we forget. Taking consumer apps as an example, could the CQC be substituted for a far cheaper, bottom-up reporting system from citizens or their advocates?
The annual report and accounts for the Food Standards Agency report a net cost of £130.5 million in 21/22. The CQC needs to do more for less, using a bottom-up approach that reli…
