CQC Statutory Notifications and RIDDOR Reporting Policy
Identifying, reporting and recording events that must be notified to the Care Quality Commission and the Health and Safety Executive, with clear responsibilities, timescales and record-keeping.
This policy is fully drafted and structured, ready to brand and complete for your service. It covers:
1. Purpose
2. Scope
3. Policy statement and principles
4. Definitions
5. Legal and regulatory framework
6. Events that must be notified to the Care Quality Commission
7. Events that must be reported to the Health and Safety Executive under RIDDOR
8. Timescales at a glance
9. Overlapping duties: one event, several reports
10. Deciding whether to report, and escalation
11. Record-keeping, confidentiality and retention
12. Roles and responsibilities
13. Training
14. Monitoring, audit and review
15. Related documents
16. Glossary
17. References
Legislation & standards it maps to
Care Quality Commission (Registration) Regulations 2009
Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014
Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR)
Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
Health and Social Care Act 2008
Mental Capacity Act 2005 (including the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards)
UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018
Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006
Who it applies to
All directors, registered persons, the nominated individual, registered manager, employed and self-employed clinicians, nursing and support staff, bank and agency workers, contractors and volunteers of [Organisation Name]
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