School attendance and fit notes Schools frequently request information from GPsregarding a child’s health conditions, their absence from school, or to certify that they were ill when sitting an exam. Parents often are put under pressure from schools to get…
CQC publish interim guidance on DBS and other recruitment checks, for providers recruiting staff and volunteers to health and social care services in response to Covid-19. This is in response to temporary changes being made by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to DBS applications and processes. It will be in operation…
It has been brought to our attention that there are a number of practices that have, to date, NOT applied for reimbursement of their CQC fees. Some of these claims relate to the year 2017/2018 and many more relate to…
Communications will begin to reach practices this week from the CQC regarding its new monitoring scheme called GP Insight. This new scheme is designed to replace the previous Intelligent Monitoring process with CQC’s stated aim being to use GP Insight…
Please see below document from CQC and below press release comment from GPC deputy chair Mark Sandford-Wood for your information. It is right that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has taken the decision to suspend inspections for the vast majority…
CQC has just announced its “consultation” on its fee rises for 2017 : www.cqc.org.uk/FeesConsultation2016 As expected there is a massive hike in fees, averaging 75% on this year’s already massive increase. The rise will be even higher for the smallest…