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» Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Care home abuse

Asked if the Prime Minister still had confidence in the Care Quality Commissioner (CQC) after the Panorama programme last night showing torture and bullying at a particular care home, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that this was a specific case that was clearly very shocking and the Health Minister, Paul Burstow had asked for a thorough examination of the roles of both the CQC and the local authorities (LA’s) in this case.

Asked if the CQC had sufficient resources, the PMS said that we had to look at the circumstances surrounding this particular case. Clearly there had been failures in this case and we needed to look at that before drawing any conclusions.

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