Small, not large, teams assess hospitals internationally

In his letter, Auger argues that the new Care Quality Commission inspection regime is under-resourced.1 Apart from their demands on clinical specialist time, and competing with peer review by the royal colleges and associations, inspection teams of 20-25 may be unsustainable. They may have worked better for the pinpoint investigation of the Keogh reviews of 14 hospitals than they would for programmed review of …