3.2 Flashcards
Quality assurance
External bodies such as care quality commission, ofsted,equality and human right commission and nice are involved in regulating and inspecting the quality of health and social care and child care environments.
Care quality commision (CQC)
The regulator of health and social care for england. It registers and licences care services to ensure that essential standards of quality and safety are met and monitors them to ensure they continue to meet these standards. Inspection reports are published and if settings are found not to meet the required standards the CQC can take action such as warning noticies and fines
Ofsted ( office for standards in education)
-Inspects and regulates services that care for children and young people and publishes a report that will identify good practice and areas for improvement.
-If a child care setting is graded ‘inadequate’ the setting is placed in special measures.
-the setting will be provided with support from the local authority additional funding and resourcing to aid improvement
Equality and human rights commission (EHRC)
The Equality and Human Rights commission has responsibility for the promotion and enforcement of equality and non-discrimination laws in England, Scotland and Wales.
Provides information to individuals so that they know their rights.
It also provides information to organisations such as care homes schools and hospitals to ensure that they know about their responsibilities under equality law.
The commission can provide legal advise in cases of discrimination and will support individuals to take cases to court.
It has powers to force organisations to fulfil their equality responsibilities
NICE (national institute for health and care excellence)
Improves outcomes for individuals using the nhs and other public health and social care services.
NICE considers whether a treatment benefits patients and will help the NHS meet its targets for example by improving cancer survival rates and whether the treatment benefits patients and will help NSH meet its targets/ for example by improving cancer survival rates and whether the treatment is value for money or cost effective.
It also provides evidence-based guidelines on how particular conditions should be treated, on how public health and social care services can best support people and provides information services for managing and providing health and social care.
