The Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) said it had identified a risk around complying with a Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulation for staffing. The Trust is responsible for the Cavell Centre in Peterborough and Fulbourn Hospital in Cambridge. It also provides a number of NHS services within the community, including mental health and other specialist services.
The risk around being able to comply with the CQC regulation 18 was highlighted by Pri Pinnaduwa, a non-executive director at the Trust, at a board of directors meeting this week (July 31). The CQC explains on its website that the intention of regulation 18 is to make sure that providers deploy enough “suitably qualified, competent and experienced staff”. The CQC said: “To meet the regulation, providers must provide sufficient numbers of suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced staff to meet the needs of the people using the service at all times and the other regulatory requirements.
“Staff must receive the support, training, professional development, supervision and appraisals that are necessary for them to carry out their role and responsibilities. “They should be supported to obtain further qualifications and provide evidence, where required, to the appropriate regulator to show that they meet the professional standards needed to continue to practise.” Ms Pinnaduwa told the board that the Trust was facing an ‘overall challenge around resourcing’, and raised so.