Test of change - integrated inspection of care at home services
The Care Inspectorate will undertake an integrated inspection of care at home services in one selected health and social care partnership (HSCP) area in year 2025/26.
This work involves combining and integrating strategic and regulatory approaches to inspection. It will help identify how commissioning processes in the selected HSCP area are supporting positive outcomes for people who experience care and their carers. This reflects the Care Inspectorate’s role in ensuring the quality of care in Scotland meets high standards. Following the inspection we will evaluate the approach, to determine future work.
We will incorporate evidence collected and findings of planned regulatory inspections of relevant care at home services. As part of the test of change all inspected regulated care at home services across Scotland will be asked to contribute by responding to a set of standard questions relating to commissioning arrangements. This approach is now part of the standard methodology of regulated of care at home services.
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Update on self-evaluation pilot in adult care services
Thank you to everyone who participated in our self-evaluation test inspections for adult services last year.
Our aim was to:
- gain understanding of where the sector was at
- explore how we could validate services self-evaluation of the core assurances
- assess whether the services own self-evaluation of the core assurances reflected that of the inspectors.
What did we do and who was involved?
Between October 2023 and June 2024, we worked with providers of adult care services to develop their skills around self-evaluation. This included holding three webinars, which were attended by more than 800 people, two face-to-face workshops with over 90 attendees, and a session with managers from a large provider. At these events, we provided practical support and advice to help services understand the process as well as providing information on how we would be testing and validating their self-evaluations.
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Invitation from the Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland to engagement sessions on the new Quality Improvement Framework for the early learning and childcare sectors
Both the Care Inspectorate and Education Scotland HM Inspectors would like to invite practitioners to our upcoming in-person engagement sessions in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness. You can book your place using the links below.
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Recall: Aactive D3 Drops and Aactive D3 Solution
TriOn Pharma is recalling two food supplement products. Aactive D3 Drops and Aactive D3 Solution because they contain higher levels of vitamin D3 than written on the label. More information here.
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Working together to support people living at home with neurological conditions
The Care Inspectorate and NHS Ayrshire and Arran have worked together on this project, which brought people living with a neurological condition into the heart of a new network, working together with the care and health professionals who support them to live at home. The approach reinforces the importance of cooperation and communication between those providing a care or health service and those receiving it. Read the report here.
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