The percentage of GPs who think the CQC inspection regime provides any benefit to the quality of care they provide to patients has fallen by 15% to according to the regulator’s annual provider survey.
The report shows 57% of 333 GP respondents ‘believe the way CQC inspects and regulates is very, fairly, or slightly beneficial to the quality of care received by people’, down from 66% in the last survey.
Increasingly practices think inspection provides no improvement to care quality, with 43% saying inspection was not beneficial compared with 33% in the last survey.
A CQC spokesperson said: ‘It’s positive that the majority of GPs felt that the inspection process was beneficial to patient care.’
