Last Updated on October 21, 2016

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published its fee proposals for increases from April 2017. This comes at the same time as an announcement from the Health Committee that it will hold an accountability meeting with the CQC in December. The CQC fee proposals follow the plans the regulator consulted on last year to meet the Treasury's requirement to recover its chargeable costs in full from providers.

The CQC proposes to:

• Increase fees for all sectors, except community social care and dental providers, as the second year of the two-year trajectory to reach full chargeable cost recovery (FCCR).
• Increase fees for community social care providers as the second year of the four-year trajectory to reach FCCR.
• Decrease fees for dental providers maintaining FCCR levels for this sector.

Full details of the proposed fee increases and other proposals are available on the consultation website and providers are encouraged to respond. The closing date is Wednesday 11th January.

The CQC fee proposals come at the same time as an announcement from the Health Committee announcing that it expects to hold an accountability hearing with the CQC in December 2016.

The hearing follows the regular series of accountability hearings held by the Committee in the last Parliament, and the reports on the CQC by the National Audit Office in July 2015 and the Committee of Public Accounts in December 2015.

The Health Committee is welcoming submissions on all aspects of the work of the CQC, however, it won't consider individual cases or pursue matters on behalf of individuals. The deadline for written submissions is Friday 18th November 2016. The date of the hearing will follow but is expected to be held in December.