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The process for applying for registration with the Care Quality Commission has been notoriously complicated, involving a lot of paperwork and navigation through some difficult systems. However, things are changing! The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have been undertaking an internal review of their administration and registration systems and have recently put into place a number of changes that should simplify the application process and minimise the paperwork requirements by service providers and registered managers.

So what are the changes that the CQC have put into place?

Well firstly the Commission have changed the forms that organisations, partnerships and individuals need to complete to apply for registration. The changes involve making all of the provider and registered manager forms simpler to complete. Earlier versions of the forms will still be accepted up to the 29th July 2011 which will help out any organisations that are partway through their application process, but from the 30th July 2011 only the latest versions of the forms will be accepted. The new forms are available to download from the CQC's website.

The next big change to the administration of the CQC system is that references are now only required on a risk basis, therefore a standard application will not need to obtain and submit references with their original application, just simply provide the names of potential referees. This applies to medical, professional and financial references and will make the process a lot easier for providers to work with.

The third change is in relation to Criminal Records Bureau declarations. From the 1st July 2011 the CQC have confirmed that they will now accept CQC countersigned CRB forms up to six months old, rather than the previously required three months. This is a lot more convenient for providers and will hopefully avoid lots of providers having to apply and re-apply as their CRBs fall in and out of date.

And the final change is in respect to nominated individuals. Prior to these new requirements all organisations were expected to submit countersigned CRB declarations and full references for their nominated individuals. However, the CQC have now passed on the responsibility for confirming the suitability of nominated individuals to the organisations themselves, and are no longer requesting that these documents are submitted with initial applications.

It is anticipated that through the decrease in red tape, all of these changes will ensure efficiencies in the CQC registration application process, which will be beneficial to the CQC and those organisations providing regulated activities.

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By Samantha Joy Pearce
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