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The new CQC approach to hospital
inspection
Ann Ford
Head of Hospital Inspection (North West)
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Our purpose and role
Our purpose
We make sure health and social care services
provide people with safe, effective,
compassionate, high-quality care and we
encourage care services to improve
Our role
We monitor, inspect and regulate services to
make sure they meet fundamental standards
of quality and safety and we publish what we
find, including performance ratings to help
people choose care
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Our New Approach
We ask these questions of all services:
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Is it safe?
Is it effective?
Is it responsive?
Is it caring?
Is it well led?
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The new CQC hospital inspection
programme
• We have retained the positive elements of our earlier approach in
particular in relation to rigorous evidence gathering.
• We have built on the Keogh Reviews process for 14 acute
hospitals with high mortality.
• We aim to be robust, fair, transparent and (hopefully) helpful.
• Work with partners to secure improvement.
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The new approach: Acute hospital
inspections
3 Phases:
• Pre-inspection:
Development of data pack
Recruitment of team
• Inspection:
8 core services , less for specialists.
5 key questions
Large team: Around 30 people.
Visits to clinical areas + focus groups,
listening events and interviews
• Post inspection:
Report writing
Confirmation of ratings
Quality Summit
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Core Services
There are 8 core services for Acute Hospitals
A&E
Medical Care
Surgical Care & Theatres
Critical Care
Maternity & Family Planning
Children and Young People’s Care
End of Life Care
Outpatients
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Core Services Mental Health
Acute wards
Psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs)
Long stay / rehabilitation wards
Health-based places of safety
Forensic inpatient / secure wards3
Child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)
Services for older people
Services for people with learning disabilities or autism
Adult community-based services
Community-based crisis services
Specialist eating disorder services
Other specialist services
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Data packs
• We collate as much information as possible on the 5 key questions and 8
core services
• Examples include:
• Safety:
STEIS; NRLS; infection rates; safety
thermometer
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Effectiveness:
Mortality (HSMR/SHMI); National Clinical Audits
Caring:
CQC Inpatient Survey; Friends + Family Test
Responsiveness:
Waiting times; Cancellations; Discharges
Well led:
Staff survey; Staff sickness rates, Governance
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Differences in the Methods
Differences in inspection methods.
• In mental health due to the restrictions placed on patients who
are detained the larger listening type event are replaced with
targeted involvement from community groups. We also run
patient focus groups and drop in sessions to ensure that we are
able to capture the views of people who use services.
• We include Mental Health Act monitoring visits as part of the
comprehensive inspection and there are sections in the report
that cover our finding of adherence to the Mental Health and
Mental Capacity Acts.
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CQC’s 5 key questions
Safe?
Are people protected from abuse and avoidable
harm?
Effective?
Does people’s care and treatment achieve good outcomes
and promote a good quality of life, and is it evidencebased where possible?
Caring?
Do staff involve and treat people with compassion,
kindness, dignity and respect?
Responsive?
Are services organised so that they meet people’s needs?
Well-led?
Does the leadership, management and governance of the
organisation assure the delivery of high-quality patientcentred care, support learning and innovation and
promote an open and fair culture?
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Inspection Teams
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Chair
Team Leader
Doctors (senior and junior)
Nurses (senior and junior)
AHPs/Managers
Experts by experience (patients and carers)
CQC Inspectors
Analysts
Programme management support
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Rationale for ratings
• The public and patients want information about the quality of services
presented in a way that is easy to understand
• The approach taken by Ofsted is seen as a model, though we recognise
that hospitals are more complex than schools.
• Patients/public may, for example, be interested in a particular service
(e.g. Medicine, surgery) rather than a single global rating
• Ratings of services and of Trusts should hopefully be a driver for
improving services and patient outcomes.
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Ratings: Approach
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A four point scale will be used for all ratings
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Outstanding
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Good
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Requires Improvement
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Inadequate
Ratings will always take account of all sources of information
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Intelligent monitoring tool
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Information provided by Trust
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Other data sources and intelligence e.g. CCGs
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Findings from site visits
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Direct observations
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Staff focus groups
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Patient and public listening events
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Interviews with key people
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Ratings: Approach
• Bottom up approach: Rate each of the core services on each of
the five key questions (safe, effective, caring, responsive, well
led).
• Then rate the Trust as a whole on the five key questions,
including an overall assessment of well led at Trust level.
• Derive a final overall rating.
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Ratings Grid
Safe
Effective
Caring
Responsive
Well-led
Overall
Accident &
Emergency
RI
NSE
G
RI
RI
RI
Medical care
G
G
G
RI
G
G
Surgery
G
G
RI
RI
G
RI
Intensive/critical
care
G
G
G
RI
G
G
Maternity & family
planning
G
G
G
G
G
G
Children's care
G
G
G
G
G
G
End of Life
G
G
G
G
G
G
Outpatients
G
NSE
G
G
G
G
Overall
G
G
G
RI
G
RI
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Summary
• The new approach is a major change
• Our evidence is that hospitals have already made improvements
as a result of these inspections
• The process is dynamic and we are open to feedback and
suggestions
• We are committed to continuous improvement
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Thank you for your time
Any Questions ?
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