National Initiatives

Question 1

What is the CQC?

Answer 1

Care Quality Commission- The regulator for Health Care

Question 2

What does the CQC do?

Answer 2

•Registers and licenses care services to ensure standards are met
•Carries out inspections to monitor that care continues to meet standards
•Publishes inspection reports that rate care settings from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’
•Can issue warning notices and fines if standards are not met

Question 3

What is NICE?

Answer 3

National Institute for Health and Social Care

Question 4

What does NICE do?

Answer 4

•Assesses new drugs and treatments as they become available
•Provides evidence-based guidelines on how particular conditions should be treated
•Provides info services for those providing Health and Social Care
•Improves outcomes

Question 5

What is the EHRC?

Answer 5

Equality and Human Rights Commission- has a website that provides info, advice and guidelines about discrimination

Question 6

What does the EHRC do?

Answer 6

•Has a website that provides info advice and guidelines about discrimination
•Provides definition of different types of discrimination
•Provides advice on whether what happened was against the Equality law
•Advice on how to make a discrimination complaint and how to take cases to court
•Provides contact details for a telephone support service

Question 7

What does OFSTED do?

Answer 7

Carries out inspections that rate child care settings and schools from ‘outstanding’ to ‘inadequate’
They inspect:
•Effectiveness of leadership and management
•Quality of teaching, learning and assessment
•Personal development, behaviour and welfare (safeguarding)
•Outcomes for children and learners

Question 8

What does the Care Certificate do?

Answer 8

• Sets out the minimum standards to be covered as part of the induction programme for
anyone new to care.
• It is for ‘unregulated’ job roles such as social care assistants.
• Enables care workers to provide safe and high quality care and support.
• Sets out 15 standards and care workers are assessed against these standards.

Question 9

What are the 15 standards for the Care Certificate?

Answer 9

*Understand your role
*Your personal development
*Duty of care
*Equality and diversity
*Work in a person centred way
*Communication
*Privacy and dignity
*Fluids and nutrition
* Awareness of mental health, dementia and learning disabilities
*Safeguarding adults
*Safeguarding children
*Basic life support
*Health and safety
*Handling information
*Infection prevention and control