Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 41025

Care Homes and Primary Care: Inspections

Tabled: 25 March 2025

Answered: 7 April 2025

Named Day

Question

Dame Caroline Dinenage

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for Care Quality Commission initial inspections for (a) GP practices, (b) dental practices and (c) care homes.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

The Department has introduced additional oversight measures to ensure significant improvements are made to the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) operational performance.CQC is aware of the issues providers have experienced with delays in processing registra...

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