Speeches

Luciana Berger – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Luciana Berger on 2016-04-25.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many and what proportion of reports of Care Quality Commission inspections of mental health trusts have been produced within the Care Quality Commission’s 50-day target in each year since 2010.

Ben Gummer

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England and has provided the following information.

The 50 day key performance indicator target for publishing inspection reports was introduced by the CQC in 2014, when its new approach to inspections was introduced.

Number of mental health trust reports published within 50 days since the introduction of the CQC’s new approach to inspections in January 2014.

2014

2015

2016

Reports published

12

26

15

Within 50 days

6

2

2

50 day percentage

50%

8%

13%

Within 65 days

9

9

5

65 day percentage

75%

35%

33%