NHS Trusts: Fines
Commons · Question 32868 · Tabled 21 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 12 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Edward Morello
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of potential alternative models to financial penalties for NHS trusts that (a) do not diminish frontline patient care and (b) improve affected local services
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 12 Mar 2025
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...