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There is a change which measures 8 on the Richter scale coming to Health Services and Adult Social Care. Heading this change is the Care Quality Commission which has drawn up stringent standards and values that every health trust, local authority adult social services and commissioned independent or private organisations will have to meet to register their practice. Those not registered will NOT be able to practice. The Date for this change is just under ten weeks away - on April 1st 2010 . The Care Quality Commission says: “The regulation of health and adult social care is changing. Subject to legislation, all health and adult social care providers who provide regulated activities will be required by law to be registered with the Care Quality Commission. The new registration system comes into force on 1 April 2010 for NHS trusts (including primary care trusts as providers) and on 1 October 2010 for adult social care and independent healthcare providers (registration under the ...

This is to update my blog of 6th September 2009: “I'd like to offer you my time, skills, experience and goodwill free of charge.“ and to record some corrections the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have offered. I said in the Sept 6th entry: ” The first problem is that this is an indirect process: you have to do it through one of their selected charitable agencies...through seven pages of their website, and downloading a list of their selections.“ I am revisiting this because I recently had a telephone conversation with the CQC’s lead on their ”Experts by Experience“ project, Mandy Moore. Mandy told me my experience of being presented with a lengthy application form inappropriate for volunteering, was misleading as ”most Experts by Experience are employed and paid by the “...national and local organisations who recruit, train and support our expert by experience on our behalf to take part in our inspection work.” and the...