Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. Each NHS trust is now required to be registered with the CQC and is legally responsible for making sure it is compliant with the essential standards of Quality and Safety as below:
- Respecting and involving people who use services
- Consent to care and treatment
- Care and welfare of people who use services
- Meeting nutritional needs
- Co-operating with other providers
- Safeguarding people from abuse
- Cleanliness and infection control
- Management of medicines
- Safety and suitability of premises
- Safety availability and suitability of equipment
- Requirements relating to workers
- Staffing
- Supporting workers
- Assessing and monitoring the quality of service provision
- Complaints
- Records
Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been registered with the CQC under the Health & Social Care Act 2008, without condition, since 1 April 2010 to provide the following services:
- Treatment of disease, disorder or injury
- Surgical procedures
- Diagnostic and screening procedures
- Maternity and midwifery services
- Transport services, triage and medical advice provided remotely
- Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983
The CQC check how NHS hospitals are meeting the essential standards of quality and safety though a programme of routine or risk based inspections and will share their findings with the public via their website. Details of the Trust's registration with the CQC, reports and surveys about the organisation and the outcome of the CQC's latest inspection of Frimley Park Hospital in November 2011 when it was found to be fully compliant are available via the CQC website at:
