At the Care Live UK trade show in Brighton yesterday, all discussion was on the statement released that morning by the Care Quality Commission who regulate all care homes. They have decided to no longer rate the care homes after an inspection.
Currently, care homes are awarded from 3 stars (excellent) down to no stars (poor). These ratings will still be visible, but will not be updated and therefore homes which make improvement may have no way of moving away from their historical poor rating. Equally homes rated excellent will still show their historical rating, but may have let things slip since.
It appears that the QCQ will have two new standards for care homes - registered (which every care home must do) and "good" - the parameters of which are not clear.
The CQC have said that homes may end up being rated by a new system, but it will not be the CQC that controls it.
Not to update the rating regime is rather unfair - not unlike Google failing to update the page rank thingie
Posted by: Inheritance Advice | Sep 17, 2010 at 15:53