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Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

An example of this evolution was the creation of the British CQC in April 2009.

The purpose of this independent agency is “to make sure health and social care services provide

people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and encourage care services to

improve” (Care Quality Commission 2019).

Most importantly, its values are the fundamental driver of its activity and the source of respect

for society.

This commission intends to achieve excellence being a high performing organization, to be caring
treating everyone with dignity and respect, to promote integrity doing the right thing, and to

promote teamwork and an inter disciplinary culture.

Again, note that the strength of any regulator is the prestige of its members and the excellence of

its activity.

In both healthcare systems based mainly on the competitive market (such as the American system)
and in public systems (such as the British NHS), the regulatory framework has developed

considerably in the last few years, at least in part because competition exists almost everywhere.

Indeed, the search for efficiency may easily cause healthcare services to malfunction so that

regulation and super vision are even more needed.

Different legal formats are acceptable with different degrees of independence from the

government (Nunes et al. 2007).

Without regulation, the risk of providers’ abuse is higher as they take advantage of their dominant
position or market power, thereby providing lower quality services at higher prices.

Therefore, what is really at issue is a paradigm change in which the concept of the state itself is

questioned so that it is possible to implement statutory regulation in different sectors of the

economy.

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