15 December 2020

CQC COVID-19 Insight reports

COVID-19 Insight reports
CQC
A regular series of insight documents intended to highlight COVID-19 related pressures on the sectors that CQC regulates.  

COVID-19 Insight: Issue 1, 19 May 2020
  • Adult social care: reviewing data on outbreaks, deaths and availability of PPE, and in particular highlighting the impact of COVID-19 on staff wellbeing and the financial viability of adult social care services.
  • How providers are working together across systems in response to coronavirus
  • How the care for people from different groups is being managed
  • Focus on primary care
  • Better care through collaboration
  • Responding to feedback about care services
  • The impact of COVID-19 on the use of Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
  • Protecting people's rights under the Mental Health Act
COVID-19 Insight Issue 4  16 September 2020
  • Infection prevention and control in Acute hospital trusts, Care homes and GP surgeries
  • Provider collaboration reviews
  • Data - outbreaks and staff absences in homecare services  / numbers of deaths of people detained under the Mental Health Act
COVID-19 Insight Issue 5 18 November 2020
  • Infection prevention and control in care homes
  • The experiences of hospital inpatients during the early stage of the pandemic
  • Data- data including: outbreaks and staff absences in homecare services; numbers of deaths of people detained under the Mental Health Act; numbers of deaths of people with a learning disability; breakdown of deaths by ethnicity.

COVID-19 Insight: Issue 6 15 December 2020
  • Regional data on the designated settings that allow people with a COVID-positive test result to be discharged safely from hospital, 
  • Latest data on registered care home provision, and 
  • How providers have collaborated to provide urgent and emergency care during the pandemic.