CQC in The NewsAgain as NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE

Well what a surprise (not) that CQC are yet again back in the news and its own Chairman David Prior has admitted this.

I wrote to David Cameron expressing long term concerns about CQC in all its various guises (CSCI, NCSC etc) and whilst Cynthia Bower was in charge, questioning the type of person they were employing as Inspectors, and he just passed the letter on until it was sent to CQC, now Cameron and Hunt are sticking their heads in the sand and reacting as if no one told them what was going on!!!!

CQC is NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE and is carrying on as normal. Their own house is just as corrupt and dirty as it has always been, and as taxpayers we are paying for the privilege.

For over 10 years I have been saying openly that CQC or in one of its guises, should stop all inspections, until they have gone through their own books, rooted out those who are failing (I know of one inspector who was complained about weekly and had no experience of care, outside of her family), and had a clear strategy that was open to everyone who they are inspecting.

Instead we have an unclear strategy, muddled inspections, where it seems the good homes are penalised for being, good, open and caring, and the poor homes and owners manage to get away with poor practise.

That now includes the Health Service. Unless Cameron and Hunt have the balls to tackle CQC and its core workings, whilst they are allowed to continue to inspect with all this fallout going on, no one will trust them.

Shut it down for one year, give it clear goals to be achieved every three months, strategy, recruiting and training, inspection and feedback, then when they pass these goals and can prove that everyone is on the same page let everyone who they inspect know what they will be inspecting for each year.

The best plans are those that are simple, but Cameron and Hunt have to take some of the blame I can't have been the only person who has written to Cameron to have his concerns brushed aside, and that was only a year or two at most ago.