The Care Quality Commission assess care against 5 domains; are they safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs and well-led?
"Most services don't know whether they are effective or not" Care Quality Commission 2014
"With the notable exceptions of critical care units and maternity, few services appear to be aware of, or to be able to demonstrate, their comparative effectiveness on national clinical audits. There needs to be much better use of data and most services need to be much better at using audits." Initial findings from the Wave 1 pilot inspections Care Quality Commission, 2014
Healthcare Conferences UK is holding a CPD Conference on Demonstrating Effectiveness which will focus on the effective domain as this is the area the Care Quality Commission are finding that most services cannot demonstrate whether they are delivering effective care or not. Prof Edward Baker
Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals Care Quality Commission will be opening the conference with a look at how services can demonstrate effectiveness and will provide key insight in to what the CQC look for when inspecting against effectiveness.
The day will continue with expert speakers delivering sessions and case studies aimed to give an insight in to demonstrating effectiveness within a service.
Chair and speakers include:
Professor Edward Baker Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals Care Quality Commission
Professor Derek Bell Professor of Acute Medicine NCPE - Eleceted Member (England and Wales) Imperial College London
Professor Gillian Leng Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Health & Social Care National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
The conference is due to take place on 25th November 2014 at the ICO Conference Centre, London. For further information please click here.