ARCO Operational Forum - July 2024

Friday, 26 July, 2024 - 00:00

Online meeting

ARCO Working Group

This monthly operational forum is exclusive to ARCO Members

Join Sally Ireland, ARCO Director of Legal & Compliance on this Operations Forum that takes place the last friday of every month and will address Operational matters. 

This working group will set a different topic each month and you are invited to nominate the most appropriate representative from your organisation to attend. Please do let us know if you have suggestions for topics by contacting the membership team.

Operational Forum - July

Whilst the day-to-day delivery of care may not change, all CQC-regulated services providing care will need to be aware of and prepared for the significant changes in CQC’s approach, including frequency of assessment by CQC, the criteria against which the care will be assessed (including a couple of new areas which will be subject to scrutiny), and the process for determining ratings.

In this online forum, Nicole Ridgwell, Healthcare Partner at ARCO Affiliate Lester Aldridge, will summarise the key changes and actions that CQC-regulated services should be taking now to understand the Single Assessment Framework and prepare for their next inspections.

Our Guest speaker

Nicole specialises in health and social care law. Nicole’s work has ranged from challenges against CQC and Ofsted on behalf of private providers and NHS Trusts to advice and advocacy for registered healthcare professionals in fitness to practise investigations. She has significant experience in public and administrative law matters, including judicial reviews; challenges to DBS certificates; regulatory due diligence for purchasers, vendors and funders; preparation for and representation at inquests; healthcare and professional disciplinary actions; safeguarding investigations; and ICO investigations