title: An inspector calls.
abstract: In April this year the National Care Standards Commission (NCSC) became responsible for the registration and inspection of all care homes and private healthcare facilities in England. And I have just struggled through the Manchester traffic in the pouring rain after visiting the NCSC to have my passport, driving licence and address checked for the Criminal Records Bureau. This is so that I can register as a care home manager - a job I have done for the last 12 years, and I've been registered for seven of those years! I haven't yet been asked to sit an exam, as many other managers have apparently been asked to do, but nothing would surprise me.
authors.affiliation: Morris Feinmann Home, Didsbury, Manchester, and a member of the RCN Forum for Nurses working with Older People.
authors.forename: Tracy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Paine