Visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices
Applies to England
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Detail of outcome
This is a response to the government consultation on introducing ‘visiting’ as a new Care Quality Commission fundamental standard for care homes, hospitals and hospices.
You can also see an easy read version of the government’s response to the consultation.
Original consultation
Consultation description
We’re seeking your views on visiting in health and care settings to inform our decisions around making visiting rules mandatory for the good of service users.
The Department of Health and Social Care wants to ensure that visiting (including accompanying people to hospital appointments) is protected and that it remains a priority for health and care providers so that patients and residents can receive visitors whenever it is reasonable and safe.
See the easy read version of this consultation.
If you need to contact us
If you have any problems using the online survey, you can email us at: visiting@dhsc.gov.uk. Do not send your consultation answers or any personal information to this email address.
Documents
Updates to this page
Last updated 20 December 2023 + show all updates
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Added a link to the impact assessment.
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Removed the 'Visiting in care homes, hospitals and hospices: regulatory de minimis assessment (impact assessment)' as it is pending updates.
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Added consultation outcome, accompanying data tables and regulatory de minimis assessment.
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Added link to easy read version of consultation.
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First published.