The Care Quality Commission has provided the following information.
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The Care Quality Commission has completed the following inspections of health and social care providers since 1 April 2009.
April May June July August September October Total Key inspections completed 1,206 1,325 1,426 1,396 1,181 1,157 827 18,788 Of those, the number which were announced 107 90 41 47 54 73 30 2526 1This includes 84 inspections of NHS trusts and 186 healthcare associated infection inspections that are not broken down monthly. 2 This includes 84 inspections of NHS trusts that are not broken down monthly.
The figures do not include an additional 214 inspections of independent health care providers (143 announced) which are currently under way and not yet completed.
The figures also do not include joint inspections with Ofsted relating to safeguarding. These commenced in June and 11 have been completed.
The following table shows the number of inspections carried out by the National Commission for Social Care and the Commission for Social Care Inspection in previous years.
2002-031 2003-041 2004-05 2005-06 2006-072 2007-083 2008-09 Key inspections completed 41,434 46,768 48,062 47,341 26,676 19,059 15,072 Of those, the number which were announced 25,606 24,226 25,233 13,824 1,734 626 303 1 During 2002-03 and 2003-04 the inspections were carried out by the National Care Standards Commission. From 2004-05 to 2008-09 the inspections were carried out by the Commission for Social Care Inspection. 2 The reduction in the number of inspections is due to changes in methodology, changes to statutory inspection frequency plus a focus on poorer performing services. 3 The further reduction in inspection numbers is due to the transfer of responsibility for regulation of children’s services to Ofsted from 1 April 2007.
The following table shows the total number of inspections of independent health care providers for the previous three years carried out by the Healthcare Commission.
2006-07 2007-08 2008-091 Inspections completed 412 865 402 Of those, the number which were announced 373 628 139 1 The reduction in inspections in 2008-09 was due to changes in methodology.
In addition, the following table shows the total number of NHS trusts inspected by the Healthcare Commission against core standards.
Number 2007-08 79 2008-09 84 Note: This is not the number of individual visits. Some trusts had more than one visit as part of an inspection.
The following table shows the number of health care associated inspections of NHS trusts carried out by the Healthcare Commission. These are all unannounced.
Number 2007-08 120 2008-09 190 Note: This does not include follow-up visits.
These figures do not include service reviews, clinical audits, or any of the investigations undertaken by the Healthcare Commission.