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19/09/2011
 
DE00000641177
 
Dear Mr Jacobson,
 
Thank you for your request of 31 August 2011 under the Freedom of
Information Act (2000).  Your exact request was:
 
“Thankyou for kindly uploading the requested minutes of the ARHAI meeting.
    
In those minutes (relating to the meeting held on 10th March 2011) one of
the action points (page 3) was:
    
To ask Care Quality Commission (CQC) to include questions    on CDI
testing as part of planned reviews and tell the NHS about this.
    
The CQC have not received this request (as of 30th August 2011)”
 
Can you explain why this is the case and when (if at all) this action
point will be undertaken.”
 
I can confirm that the Department holds information relevant to your
request.  
 
The statement “to ask the CQC to include questions on CDI testing as part
of planned reviews and tell the NHS about this” was proposed as a
recommendation.  It was not adopted by the Committee, as implementation
would not be straightforward, but the observer from the Care Quality
Commission noted the concerns and agreed to keep this in mind for the
future.
 
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