CQC Market Oversight
Market Oversight is a national scheme run by the Care Quality Commission which aims to cause as little disruption as possible to people in vulnerable circumstances if a difficult-to-replace care provider’s business fails and services have to be closed.
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About this standard
- Publisher
- CQC
- Publication date
- 9 November 2022
- Contact point
enquiries@cqc.org.uk
Link to standard
- Applies to
- Residential social care : Care home services with nursing
- Associated medias
More information
Market Oversight aims to protect people using adult social care services from having their care interrupted where a large or specialist care provider is at risk of financial failure and has to close one or more of its services. Where we assess that this is likely we will notify the relevant local authorities where the affected service(s) deliver care so they can enact specific contingency plans to preserve continuity of care. Local authorities have a legal duty to ensure people continue to have their care needs met if a provider stops being able to do so.
Page last updated: 02 April 2023