Innovation in European healthcare – what can Sweden learn? - LIF

Providers of NHS services are mainly regulated
by four central bodies
Care Quality
Commission (CQC)
Audit Commission
National Institute for
Health and Clinical
Excellence (NICE)
Strategic Health
Authority (SHA)
• Responsible for
regulation and inspection
of all health care
providers (NHS, private
sector and voluntary
sector)
• Responsible for
licensing, monitoring and
inspection of all health
and adult social care,
and has enforcement
powers
• Is concerned with the
financial health and
probity of NHS bodies
• Ensures that essential
standards of quality and
safety are being met
where care is provided
• Has a wide range of
enforcement powers to
take action on behalf of
people who use
services if services are
unacceptably poor
• Develops guidelines in the
areas of health:
1. Health technologies:
guidance on the use of
new and existing
medicines, treatments and
procedures within the
NHS
2. Clinical practice: guidance
on the appropriate
treatment and care of
people with specific
diseases and conditions
within the NHS; and
3. Public health: for those
working in the NHS, local
authorities and the wider
public and voluntary
sector, guidance on the
promotion of good health
and the prevention of ill
health
• Is key link between the
Department of Health
and the NHS,
responsible for
developing plans for
improving health
services in their local
area
• Ensures local health
services are of a high
quality and are
performing well
• Aims to increase the
capacity of local health
services so they can
provide more services
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