{"id":31137,"date":"2026-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=31137"},"modified":"2026-06-30T13:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T12:44:36","slug":"what-makes-care-outstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2026\/08\/06\/what-makes-care-outstanding\/","title":{"rendered":"What makes care outstanding?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2026.<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This research looks at what makes care outstanding. In 2021, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) \u2013 the independent regulator of health and social care in England \u2013 started a major programme of change. Three independent reviews in 2024 and 2025 found serious problems with the way CQC put the changes into practice (Care Provider Alliance 2025; Dash 2024; Richards 2024). As a result, CQC is now rebuilding its approach to regulation. This includes developing 4 sector specific assessment frameworks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Freely available online<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcomm.knowledgeshare.nhs.uk%2Fls%2Fclick%3Fupn%3Du001.f0rOB6b6BpwM3cmYz-2FvR8ZcxhrlRy8LS7BBKr1uPxFSxvPShWBgvBVn009QyS3la28DKJDA0-2BmVasWX37SALSyPFzoBAWt9yjp1YabZnkvaIQVxtdASkMA3ZkRSN-2F6MxiYmQ_dQQJK-2Bh2VwYZPbMqkB87WA32QI3f-2BWEMx-2B25S5eglRzEceQyoGl8Uq4kHGL0icBfSUlzEwdhyjMhf5Iu2DBKqMTiDMs0h0ANaTAAONC0aGP0FebY1SF4AmCS6k4271k9-2F78vVizoU2k6vo4TsHPrjTx4n8Z-2Br3lMXbuUvU1XMpUHeTwliaZWK1cgF2bgE1s8-2FRxB37jEbPjlZBlb4TkORKztQTvin-2B4Vq71IqmQLLZbTyUeAky-2F6-2FRvAYMAi4g-2BjhMT-2BTskkZxNzVV-2FFiu4Mi20Td4p7xjPqgHFARbYl1VaqsQazjoE0lrMTewvbgW8SgVqpEj2KT05fM5J2C6O8MtrsZn0nbFKF2MuDzunt2ouugn7lrs9xjAs2MiZgxMHf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAcademic.Library%40lscft.nhs.uk%7C90a1a114d95142b0522f08ded5b3cab9%7C0418b648afb0430094ba33f2b09eb31f%7C1%7C0%7C639183165345856974%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pB7eEjkLQLCqrcE0KFbScR7xMLeZQeUGUhDQAEsVKnE%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcomm.knowledgeshare.nhs.uk%2Fls%2Fclick%3Fupn%3Du001.f0rOB6b6BpwM3cmYz-2FvR8ZcxhrlRy8LS7BBKr1uPxFSxvPShWBgvBVn009QyS3la28DKJDA0-2BmVasWX37SALSyPFzoBAWt9yjp1YabZnkvaIQVxtdASkMA3ZkRSN-2F6MxiYmQ_dQQJK-2Bh2VwYZPbMqkB87WA32QI3f-2BWEMx-2B25S5eglRzEceQyoGl8Uq4kHGL0icBfSUlzEwdhyjMhf5Iu2DBKqMTiDMs0h0ANaTAAONC0aGP0FebY1SF4AmCS6k4271k9-2F78vVizoU2k6vo4TsHPrjTx4n8Z-2Br3lMXbuUvU1XMpUHeTwliaZWK1cgF2bgE1s8-2FRxB37jEbPjlZBlb4TkORKztQTvin-2B4Vq71IqmQLLZbTyUeAky-2F6-2FRvAYMAi4g-2BjhMT-2BTskkZxNzVV-2FFiu4Mi20Td4p7xjPqgHFARbYl1VaqsQazjoE0lrMTewvbgW8SgVqpEj2KT05fM5J2C6O8MtrsZn0nbFKF2MuDzunt2ouugn7lrs9xjAs2MiZgxMHf&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAcademic.Library%40lscft.nhs.uk%7C90a1a114d95142b0522f08ded5b3cab9%7C0418b648afb0430094ba33f2b09eb31f%7C1%7C0%7C639183165345856974%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pB7eEjkLQLCqrcE0KFbScR7xMLeZQeUGUhDQAEsVKnE%3D&amp;reserved=0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Care Quality Commission (CQC); 2026. This research looks at what makes care outstanding. In 2021, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) \u2013 the independent regulator of health and social care in England \u2013 started a major programme of change. Three independent reviews in 2024 and 2025 found serious problems with the way CQC put the changes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2026\/08\/06\/what-makes-care-outstanding\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What makes care outstanding?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[246],"tags":[1701,2783,4979,4985],"class_list":["post-31137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-care","tag-cqc","tag-health-and-social-care","tag-report","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31138,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31137\/revisions\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}