Right decision on CQC fees

29 October 2020

Responding to Care Quality Commission’s (CQC’s) announcement that its fees will not change next year the director of policy and strategy at NHS Providers, Miriam Deakin, said:

“We welcome CQC’s commitment to keeping its fees stable this year given the unprecedented challenges facing providers and the wider health and care sector as they face a second wave of COVID, and seek to support an exhausted workforce.

“We agree that now is not the time for a radical change in the regulator’s funding model.

“However we do look forward to working with CQC to better understand any impact their new strategy, and new regulatory approach from 2021/22 may have on the fees providers pay in the medium term.”