The Care Quality Commission is an independent regulator of NHS organisations, which means that they assess, monitor and make publicly available, information about healthcare organisations’ performance.
Every year, the Care Quality Commission requires NHS organisations to undertake a self-assessment of their performance against a number of core standards within ‘Standards for Better Health’, a national performance assessment framework.
The core standards provide the minimum quality requirement that all organisations are expected to achieve to deliver safe, high quality services. Self-assessment enables organisations to identify where improvements are needed and to take action to make improvements.
Following self-assessment, the Boards of organisations make an annual declaration to the Care Quality Commission giving assurance that the core standards are met, or where they are not, that actions will be taken to ensure compliance in the coming year.
The Care Quality Commission also require organisations to publish their annual declaration on their public website so that patients and the general public can be made aware of how the organisation is performing.
You can read our annual and mid-year declarations in full by clicking the links below.
From April 1st 2010, the Care Quality Commission is introducing a new system of registration for health and adult social care providers. From April, NHS service providers will have to ensure they meet new standards of safety and quality. The new standards are focused on the things that matter to patients, and their experience of the care they have received.
Oldham PCT 2008-2009 Core Standards Declaration (PDF Document - 1.24MB)
Oldham PCT 2009-2010 Standards Mid-Year Declaration (PDF Document - 8.19MB)
Oldham Health Improvement Service Annual Report 2008-2009 (PDF Document - 7.2MB)