Judgement framework - Care Quality Commission

A new system of registration
As the regulator of health and adult social care in England, we make sure
that the care that people receive meets essential standards of quality and
safety and we encourage ongoing improvements by those who provide
or commission care.
The new registration system for health and adult social care will make
sure that people can expect services to meet essential standards of quality
and safety that respect their dignity and protect their rights. The new system
is focused on outcomes rather than systems and processes, and places the
views and experiences of people who use services at its centre.
We will continuously monitor compliance with essential standards as part
of a new, more dynamic, responsive and robust system of regulation. Our
assessors and inspectors will frequently review all available information and
intelligence we hold about a provider. We will seek information from patients
and public representative groups, and from organisations such as other
regulators and the National Patient Safety Agency.
If we have concerns that a provider is not meeting essential standards
of quality and safety, we will act quickly, working closely with commissioners
and others, and using our new enforcement powers if necessary.
Promoting improvement
In addition to the assurance about compliance with essential standards
that registration will provide, we have an important function in promoting
improvement by providing independent, reliable and timely information
about the quality of care in providers above essential standards, and about
the quality of care secured by commissioners for their local communities,
which we describe as assessments of quality.
These assessments include: our periodic reviews of the performance
of all health and adult social care providers, and of councils and primary
care trusts as commissioners of care; and our special reviews and studies
of particular aspects of care, on economy, efficiency and effectiveness,
and information issues.
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Care Quality Commission: Guidance about compliance Judgement framework March 2010