New registration system for adult health and social care

From April 2010, all health and adult social care providers will be required by law to be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

To do so, providers must show they are meeting new essential standards of quality and safety across all of the regulated activities they provide.

The new system will make sure that people can expect services to meet essential standards of quality and safety that respect their dignity and protect their rights. It will focus on outcomes rather than systems and processes, and places the views and experience of people who use services at the core.

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