NHS Trusts: Fines
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department plans to review the system of financial penalties imposed on NHS trusts for health and safety breaches.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
Enforcement is one of the core components of the operating model that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) uses to achieve its purpose and perform its role, to improve health and adult social care services and protect the health, safety and welfare of people who use them. The CQC monitors and assesses service providers against the fundamental standards of quality and safety. Failure to comply with the standards and make improvements, could result in enforcement action by the CQC.
The current system of penalties imposed on National Health Service trusts for health and safety breaches is defined by law. The Department has not made any assessments of other models and, therefore, has no plans to review this.
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