21.03.16
CQC continues to miss performance targets
CQC performance targets for hospital inspections and registrations are still being missed, according to the inspection body’s latest figures.
A report to be considered at the CQC board meeting this week shows that in January 2016 it carried out 1,039 inspections of adult social care, compared to a performance target of 1,247, an 83.3% success rate.
In January, it completed 390 out of a planned 600 (65%) inspections of primary medical services.
The CQC has consistently fallen short of both performance targets since April 2015, when it dramatically increased the number of inspections required from 733 to 907 for adult social care and from 189 to 299 for primary medical services.
It warned last September that its performance may be ‘unrecoverable’ if it continues to miss performance targets.
It also only completed 73.1% of registration processes and 73% of cancellation processes within 50 days, compared to a 90% target.
The CQC said this could be due to a backlog from 2014 and the complexity of some cases.
It was also called ineffective in a recent Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report.
Despite this, the Department of Health confirmed recently that it will recommend to Parliament that the CQC be allowed to increase fees from mid-sized NHS and foundation trusts.