The NHS: Where does all the money go?

Part 2: the Care Quality Commission

We start exploring the organisational layout of the NHS as reported to Parliament and reproduced in our first post.

Body name: Care Quality Commission (CQC)

Place in the wiring: National Body (England)

CQC is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. 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.

The NHS: Where does all the money go?

The Cost to March 2023  was:  

• Total operating expenditure:   £248,699,000 (249 million)

• Net operating expenditure:     £29,838,000 (30 million)

The latest financial statement to 31 March 2023 does not match the figures in our Part 1 post. 

The CQC's financial statement includes a footnote [1] showing further revenues. During the year, CQC received grant-in-aid funding of £97 million from DHSC. This funding, which is not included…