Hospitals: Inspections

(asked on 8th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what qualifications are required for working on, designing or undertaking analytical processing under the heading of Intelligent Monitoring; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Norman Lamb Portrait
Norman Lamb
This question was answered on 11th December 2014

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England. The CQC is responsible for the recruitment of its own workforce.

The CQC has advised that it ensures that all staff appointed have the necessary skills and expertise to fulfil their roles.

Among the skills, qualifications and experience required for the role are:

- Excellent quantitative and qualitative analytical skills and previous experience of working in an analytical role.

- Experience of interpreting and presenting data sets to a wide range of audiences.

- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral with experience of preparing and presenting high-level reports on complex issues.

- Understanding of how intelligence is used in a risk based regulatory model.

- Knowledge and understanding of health and/or social care data sets.

- Experience of using management information systems to ensure an integrated information approach.

- Experience of working with consistent analytic frameworks.

The CQC’s Primary Medical Services Intelligent Monitoring team consists of six analytical staff. The team draws on particular expertise from across the CQC, for example clinical, sector policy and statistical advice.

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