Preparing for re registration 10 02 2010

							                      Preparing for
                      re-registration:
                      next steps and
                      outstanding issues

Latest Developments in the Nursing Homes,
Care Homes and Assisted Living Markets
The Henry Stewart 2010 Briefing
10 February 2010

        Des Kelly OBE
        Executive Director
        National Care Forum
Preparing for re-registration
1. Introducing the new system of
   registration
2. The timescale for implementation
3. What do providers need to do to
   prepare?
4. Meeting the new standards
5. Registration fees
6. What help is available to providers?
Introducing the new system

• A single regulatory framework for
  health and adult social care
• NHS, local authority, private and
  third sector register with CQC
• A focus on outcomes rather than
  systems and processes
• Views and experience of people who
  use services at the centre
Introducing the new system

• Quality and Risk Profile for each
  registered provider will hold all
  information in one place
In addition:
• CQC has a statutory obligation to
  perform its functions in a way that
  encourages improvement
Timescales and key dates
The key dates:
2009/10 is a transitional year
• 1 April 2010 NHS trusts and PCT as
  providers to be registered and adult social
  care providers apply for registration
• Registration under the Care Standards Act
  2000 ends on 30 September 2010
• 1 October 2010 adult social care (and
  independent healthcare) providers to be
  registered
Other key dates

Other key dates:

• 1 April 2011 dentistry and independent
  ambulance services to be registered
• 1 April 2012 primary medical services
  including GP practices to be registered
What do providers need to do
to prepare?

Three guidance documents published in
  December 2009:
• Summary of regulations, outcomes and
  judgement framework (65 pg)
• Essential standards of quality and safety
  (275 pg)
• Judgement framework (148 pg) for CQC
  staff
Meeting the new standards

Essential standards of quality and
  safety:
• Involvement and information
  (outcomes 1 to 3)
• Personalised care, treatment and
  support (outcomes 4 – 6)
• Safeguarding and safety (outcomes 7
  – 11)
Meeting the new standards

Essential standards of quality and
  safety:
• Suitability of staffing (outcomes 12-
  14)
• Quality and management (outcomes
  15 – 21)
• Suitability of management
  (outcomes 22 – 28)
Registration fees

• Consultation in early 2010 on fees
  from October 2010 to March 2011
  although actual fee levels will not
  change
• Proposal in Spring 2011 on approach
  to fees for April 2011
What help is available?

• Series of guidance documents
  published
• Regional and local events
• Scenario planning events
• Revamp of CQC website
And finally…towards conclusions

• Pace and scale of change
• Rhetoric and reality
• Political and financial context