Different CQC Fees for different practices
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- Published: Tuesday, 01 April 2014 08:11
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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published details of the fees to be paid by different providers from 1 April 2014. There will be no increase for providers of dental services, but there will be different fees for single location dental providers to better distinguish between smaller and larger services.
Fees for a single location dental practice will be:
- 1 chair £650
- 2 chairs £750
- 3 chairs £850
- 4 chairs £950
- 5 or 6 chairs £1100
- More than 6 chairs £1300
Fees for multiple practices range from £1600 for 2 locations to £60,000 for more than 99 locations.
The CQC reports that fees changes include:
- A differentiated increase to fee charges, based on current levels of cost recovery, which results in:
- No increase for providers of dental services.
- A 1.5% increase for providers of adult social care services and
- 2.5% for all other types of providers.
- Adjusting the fee bandings for providers of care home services to more evenly distribute fee charges.
- Differentiating fees for single location dental providers to better distinguish between smaller and larger services.
CQC chief executive, David Behan, said: “Our purpose is to ensure people receive services which are safe and of high quality. Monitoring, inspecting and regulating services has a cost attached, which is met in part by the fees providers pay. We have listened to the views that were expressed during the consultation, and have made a modest increase to fees, and introduced new fee bands to the care home and dental sectors based on the feedback we received.”
CQC will carry out another public consultation in the autumn of this year, which will consider the next set of changes to the fees scheme for 2015/16.
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