Adult social care provider information provisions: formal notice

Formal notice of a mandate for all adult social care providers

HTML

This publication is the formal notice required under section 277A of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (as inserted by the Health and Care Act 2022).

It sets out what information is required by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from adult social care providers regulated by the Care Quality Commission.

1. 26 April 2024

   Updated the list of information required to remove 'full primary course of the COVID-19 vaccination' from the collection for directly employed staff, agency or bank staff, residents and home care setting staff; and removal of full primary course definition.

2. 14 July 2023

   Updated the list of information required to remove '(vacant) not available for admission - reasons bed not available' and to clarify that COVID-19 vaccination data is required when collected as part of a campaign. Removed 'PPE availability' from the list of operational support data items.

3. 17 March 2023

   Updated the list of mandatory data items to replace references to 'autumn booster' with 'seasonal booster'. A definition of this has been added to the section on COVID-19 vaccination question definitions.

4. 9 January 2023

   Updated the list of mandatory data items, including changes to workforce data collection and domiciliary care packages of care collection. Added a link to the new enforcement guidance.

5. 14 July 2022

   First published.