Mental Health Services: Staff

(asked on 10th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his oral statement of 9 January 2023, on NHS winter pressures, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of increasing Care Quality Commission inspections on staff availability for clinical work in inpatient mental health settings.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 26th January 2023

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) issued a detailed statement on 24 January about how it will adjust its regulatory activity through the winter period. This means continuing to respond to the most serious risks in National Health Service organisations and continuing to conduct Mental Health Act monitoring visits to ensure that the rights of people detained under the act are protected. In the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s winter statement, mental health is used as an example of where any resources that are freed up from reduced inspections could be deployed. The CQC’s inspections are risk based, and we would expect them to deploy any resource available in a way that reflects those risks.

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