Provider collaboration in urgent and emergency care In autumn 2020, we carried out a series of reviews to look at how providers were working together to deliver urgent and emergency care services during the pandemic. These provider collaboration reviews are intended to share good practice to help drive local, regional and national improvement. While these reviews took place under different circumstances and pressures to those currently being experienced, their lessons remain valuable. We have seen some terrific examples of where the pandemic has been a catalyst for change. We wanted to share these positive examples now to support services, providers and systems as they work together in response to the continued pressures of the pandemic. We hope these early findings and examples of good practice will support providers and systems plan their ongoing response. We will be publishing a full report of our findings in the spring. Find out more on our website. Update on review into the application DNACPR decisions In December 2020 we published the interim report from our review into the application of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. This sets out the progress of our review so far and our expectations around DNACPR. You can find the methodology for the review on our website. We are now reviewing evidence gathered as part of the review and working towards publication of a national report. This report will set out our findings, including any known themes and trends. It will also describe good practice and outline any known changes to the use of DNACPR in response to the pandemic. Care and support should always be delivered in a person-centred way. Advance care planning is no exception and we continue to monitor and review the application of DNACPR decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Is your registration information up to date? It is a providers' responsibility to ensure their registration information held with CQC is correct. This information is used to calculate fees, so it's important that it's right. We would encourage you to check your entry on the register. If you need to make changes, you can find more information on our website, or speak to your relationship owner.  COVID-19 Insight: Issue 7 We've published the seventh issue of our COVID-19 Insight report. In this month's report, we share further data on the designated settings scheme for adult social care, and look more closely at data on deaths from COVID-19. You can read the full report here and accompanying news story on our website. | The Queen's Nursing Institute publish 2020 general practice survey results Results from this survey, commissioned by NHS England and covering nurses working in general practice has been published. It includes findings from 3177 respondents and was carried out during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020. How CQC inspects services for victims of human trafficking and modern slavery We have published details on our approach to inspecting safehouses which support people who are victims of human trafficking and modern slavery. We have also published a news story outlining how we work with the Home Office and what our plans are for the inspection programme. New guidance on the use of vitamin D in care homes The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) have published Vitamin D and care homes guidance. DHSC are supplying care homes with a four-month supply of vitamin D food supplement to support residents' bone and muscle health. Public Health England recommend that people living in care homes should take a 10 microgram vitamin D supplement all year. The guidance recommends that where advice is needed, it should be sought from the resident's GP or healthcare professional at the residents' next planned appointment. CQC has also published guidance, Vitamin D supplements – supporting people who receive ASC which supports the DHSC position of vitamin D as a food supplement and not a medicine. 'Because we all care' public campaign – focus on unpaid carers Earlier this month we launched the latest activity spike of our public campaign to encourage people to feedback on their care experiences. #BecauseWeAllCare is a joint initiative with Healthwatch England and works alongside voluntary and community partners. Our latest spike of activity focusses on reaching unpaid carers. Unpaid carers play a crucial role in supporting people with care needs and we want to encourage them to tell us about the care they, and their loved ones receive from health and social care services. We want to encourage people to report poor care to give us their insight into what people are experiencing. We want to hear about good care too so we can celebrate it and share good practice. Thank you for all your support with the campaign to date. We hope you will continue to support the campaign through your own communication channels. We have a range of campaign assets that you can use to encourage feedback. You can find out more about Because we all care on our website. LGBT+ History Month For the first time, CQC's LGBT+ Network is marking LGBT+ History Month in February, following a successful first CQC Virtual Pride in July 2020. The network wants to show support to colleagues as well as providers and the public, reinforcing that CQC strives for equal and good quality care for everybody. Throughout February the following sessions are open to anyone who wishes to attend. All sessions will be approximately an hour. For more information and to sign up please contact ray.mason@cqc.org.uk - Memoirs of a semi-professional sinner: 50 years as boy, man, party animal, activist, patient
Tuesday 2 February, 1-2pm - Curious Conversations: All Things Trans
Friday 5 February, 1-2pm - LGBT+ Awareness Raising Session
Tuesday 9 February, 1-2pm - Islam & LGBT+ Identities Wednesday 17 Feb, 1-2pm
- Pride in Practice gold award
Tuesday 23 February, 1-2pm - 'Curing Queers' talk with Dr Tommy Dickinson
Thursday 25 February, 2-3pm - CQC 'Twitter Takeover' by the LGBT+ Network
Friday 26 February, all day COVID-19 vaccination programme The government have updated their COVID-19 vaccines delivery plan which explains how the UK government was able to build up a supply of vaccines and how it is planning to deploy them. You can read the plan here. You'll also find documents relating to the programme on the GOV.UK website. Here you can download leaflets and consent forms for having the COVID-19 vaccine. Daffodil Standards for care homes The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), in partnership with the end of life charity Marie Curie, have enhanced the 'Daffodil Standards' to 'support GPs and their teams in providing consistently high-quality palliative and end of life care specifically focusing on older patients living in care homes'. Weight loss injections enforcement notice The Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP), jointly with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), has today published an Enforcement Notice to weight-loss treatment providers which makes clear and instructs them that they must not, directly or indirectly, promote prescription-only-medicines (POMs) to the public.  CQC's formal strategy consultation has now launched You can also find more information in our recent news story, Ian Trenholm's latest blog, a series of recorded webinars on our YouTube channel, and in our latest CQC Connect podcast.  We also want to hear your feedback on our proposed changes for flexible regulation. In this document, we're proposing some specific changes that will enable us to deal with ongoing challenges from the pandemic and move us towards our ambition to be a more dynamic, proportionate and flexible regulator. All CQC offices are closed Please do not send post - visit our website for details on how to contact us. Guidance for primary care and dental services professionals Updated Mythbusters from CQC:  Follow us on Twitter! Follow @CQCProf on Twitter to get regular updates about the work we are doing with professionals and provider organisations in England. | | 
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