Assessment through the annual health check
The Healthcare Commission is responsible for assessing the performance of all healthcare organisations and issues performance ratings for all NHS organisations each year.
This process is called the annual health check. As one component, we assess organisations’ compliance with the Department of Health’s core standards. To do this, we inspect approximately 20% of trusts each year to make sure that they meet the standards.
Three of these core standards relate to the Hygiene Code (C4a, C4c and C21).
The annual health check also assesses how trusts are meeting Government targets, including the target to halve rates of MRSA by 2008.
More information about the annual health check
Complaints about the NHS and independent health service that have not been successfully resolved at a local level, are the responsibility of the Healthcare Commission.
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