The CQC regulates health and adult social care services in England, whether its provided by the NHS, local authorities, private companies or voluntary organisations. They make sure that essential common quality standards are being met where care is provided and work towards the improvement of care services. Their main activities are:
Registration of health and social care providers to ensure they are meeting essential common quality standards
Monitoring and inspection of all health and adult social care
Using enforcement powers, such as fines and public warnings or closures, if standards are not being met
Improving health and social care services by undertaking regular reviews of how well those who arrange and provide services locally are performing and special reviews on particular care services, pathways of care or themes where there are particular concerns about quality
Reporting the outcomes so that people who use services have information about the quality of their local health and adult social care services. It helps those who arrange and provide services to see where improvement is needed and learn from each other about what works best
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