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MPs on the health select committee have endorsed Dame Jo Williams’ candidacy for chair of the Care Quality Commission.
However, they warned that while the CQC had “made encouraging progress in many areas of its agenda, a substantial number of issues remain”.
In a report the committee called on the CQC to address several areas of concern:
The health committee, which plans to review the CQC’s work on an annual basis, said a number of the Commission’s challenges related to continuing work to consolidate it as a single unified body following the merger of its three predecessor bodies (the Healthcare Commission, the Commission for Social Care Inspection, and the Mental Health Act Commission).
The MPs said there was a need to establish a clear understanding of the distinctive roles of the chair and board on the one hand, and the chief executive and management on the other – and to establish an effective working relationship between the two.
They added that there was a need to develop a common “CQC” culture across the different historic fields of responsibility, and a need to develop clear internal cost and efficiency targets and procedures for reporting performance against these targets to the board.
Practical challenges arising from the merger – such as the consolidation of information technology systems and the development of an integrated management structure – were also still an issue.
The committee said it recognised that the CQC’s objectives needed to be achieved against the background of declining real resource.