Question follow-through · 41025
Care Homes and Primary Care: Inspections
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.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 28 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 7 Apr 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Mar 2025
Question tabled
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.
28 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Apr 2025
Answer published
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...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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