Ms Susan Cliffe:

We have one assessment judgment framework, one set of care and welfare regulations and one set of registration regulations. These are applied regardless of whether a registered provider is public, private or voluntary, or whether there are 185 beds, 120 beds or 20 beds. The same regulatory framework is applied across the board. When our inspectors arrive to inspect a nursing home, it is immaterial what the provenance of that provider is and whether it is public, private or voluntary.