Recent debates about the state of health and social care may have missed a vital piece of the jigsaw. By virtue of a little noticed bill, which has its third reading in the House of Commons today, the entire regulatory system affecting all health and social care services will soon be radically altered. The health and social care bill will merge the Healthcare Commission, the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Mental Health Act Commission into a new "super-regulator" assessing the safety and quality of public services that together account for about £105bn of public expenditure, employ 2.9 million people and are delivered through well over 30,000 individually registered care and health services.
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Letter: Social care bill must put needs of users at the heart of regulation - The Guardian 18th February 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
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