The Care Standards Act

The Care Standards Act, which covers all aspects of regulation and standards in the independent healthcare sector, is now out for consultation.

Details can be obtained from www.doh.gov.uk/ncsc/independenthealthcareregs.pdf

Comments can be made by the 16 October 2001 and the LCA is considering a response. In general the LCA welcomes this document and endorses the proposals.

Any member of the LCA with a view should contact us

The LCA has always stood for the highest possible standards in the independent sector and thus welcomes the general proposals. It is hoped, in particular, that there will be an end to the varied way in which acute private hospitals have been regulated in the past by different bodies, often with extra demands from insurers, and that a unified approach will now be adopted.