CQC's State of Care report - our response

The Care Quality Commission has published its annual State of Care report highlighting poorer ratings across maternity and mental health services.

You can find more information and Louise Ansari’s (Healthwatch England) full response, which you might wish to draw on for you own response to any media enquiries, on the Healtwatch England website: CQC's State of Care report - our response | Healthwatch

So far, our comments have been featured on LBC Radio and in the Guardian and the Sun.  

About the Care Quality Commission
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and social care in England. They make sure health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, caring, well-led and responsive care, and they encourage care services to improve. They monitor, inspect and regulate services to make sure they meet fundamental standards of quality and safety and they publish what they find to help people choose care.