title: Regualtion: annual hospital inspections to be dropped, with 'excellent' organisations assessed every five years and more scrutiny for the worst performers, CQC chair David Prior tells HSJ.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Calkin
mesh_terms: D033161:Government Regulation; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000592:standards*; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom