CQC Special Update: responding to the outbreak of Coronavirus

Within the update the CQC have said the following:

"At this challenging time we've established three key principles that we'll use to make sure services continue to be safe, whilst limiting the impact on providers and our own colleagues.

We'll be focusing our activity where it is needed most to ensure people receive safe care – this means concentrating on those areas where we see that the risk to the quality of care is the highest and where we can make the biggest difference.

We'll support providers by looking at how we can act flexibly and proportionately to reduce the asks that we make of them – including reducing what they need to do to prepare for inspection and looking at what we can do to limit our need to be on site.

We'll honour our duty of care to our colleagues at CQC"