Overview of the Concordat

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Overview of the Concordat
Nick Jones Deputy Head of Strategy Healthcare
Commission
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Aim of the Concordat
To develop a programme that will help reduce
overlap and duplication in regulation of health
and social care

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Full signatories

• Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
• Audit Commission
• Commission for Social Care Inspection
• Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans
• General Medical Council
• Health Safety Executive
• Healthcare Commission
• Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority
• Mental Health Act Commission
• National Audit Office
• NHS Counter Fraud Security Management Service
• NHS Litigation Authority

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Associate signatories

• Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence
• Department of Health
• Healthcare Inspectorate Wales
• Health and Social care Information Centre
• NHS Confederation
• Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education

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Governance and engagement mechanisms

• Health and Social Care Inspection Forum
• Implementation Group

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Actions to date

• launch of web based scheduling tool to streamline
  visits (www.healthcarecommission.org.uk)
• regulators information map and protocol to
  encourage information sharing
• guidelines on recommendations to prevent
  duplication/inconsistencies

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Actions to date cont

• common cost benefit approach
• joint studies with Audit Commission, National
  Audit Office and CSCI
• joint working with CSCI and Mental Health Act
  Commission
• local engagement and collaboration

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What we are focusing on now?

• learning from experience to date
• listening and seeing things from your perspective
• prioritising actions from today

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Will our actions make a significant impact?