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As well as the 60 practices wrongly placed in the CQC’s Intelligent Monitoring bands 1 and 2, there were also many others, including my own, that were incorrectly assigned a lower band because of a straightforward error. I contacted the CQC about this, and eventually had a response that they had “considered the methodology” and removed one of the indicators. There was no form of apology whatsoever. It is shame that an organisation that is set up to judge others doesn’t feel confident enough just to say sorry for a simple mistake.
Re: Regulator apologises to 60 general practices for wrongly prioritising them for inspection
As well as the 60 practices wrongly placed in the CQC’s Intelligent Monitoring bands 1 and 2, there were also many others, including my own, that were incorrectly assigned a lower band because of a straightforward error. I contacted the CQC about this, and eventually had a response that they had “considered the methodology” and removed one of the indicators. There was no form of apology whatsoever. It is shame that an organisation that is set up to judge others doesn’t feel confident enough just to say sorry for a simple mistake.
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