Introduction of the Use of Resources framework
The Care Quality Commission rates health and care providers across a spectrum of indicators including whether they are providing safe care and are well led. These ratings are then combined to give an overall CQC rating.
Since August 2017 NHS Improvement has begun to rate organisations using a new Use of Resources framework, which will rate health and care organisations on how NHS non-specialist acute trusts are using resources to provide high quality, efficient and sustainable care.
CQC consultation
As part of this work, the CQC has launched a consultation asking for views on how the new use of resources ratings and current quality rating systems should be combined.
The overall approach proposed is to combine the two separate ratings in one single aggregate rating for each organisation. The consultation proposes a change to the current way in which assessments of each individual element are combined.
The creation of a single rating combining both assessments is likely to have a considerable public impact and impact on the percentage of trusts rated in each performance category (the categories remain as Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement and Inadequate).
NHS Employers' collective response
We are seeking the views of employers in order to make a collective response to the CQC. We have three questions, which we are asking employers in the NHS to respond to.
