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Wednesday 19th Mar 2014 - Kate Hodkinson
Well – good news and bad news
The CQC has announced the first 12 areas to have the new style inspection process. On the positive side, these places will be part of a pilot programme and so, hopefully, it will be a developmental and learning process.
This brings some good opportunities to influence things for the future. On the negative side, it might be difficult to demonstrate compliance when we are still not really sure of the interpretation of the 11 new Fundamental Standards. Most practices had only just got to grips with the previous 28 Essential Standards.
The announcement has given the following details of the CCGs which will be in the first part of the pilot:
Quite a cross section of CCGs in terms of population, need and service delivery so it will be very interesting to see what comes out of the pilots. I am particularly keen to see how the inclusion of GPs, Nurses and Practice Managers influences the process.
Yet more interesting times ahead!
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