In 2019, The British Association of Brain Injury Case Management (BABICM) conducted a detailed review with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) regarding development of best practice guidance for case managers and case management companies. Subsequently in early 2020, BABICM provided formal guidance to determine if there is an over-arching requirement for case managers and case management companies to register with the CQC.
This BABICM guidance concluded that because various services differ significantly, it was not possible to make an appropriate recommendation for all providers; each company must make their own registration decision based on the services they provide in the context of the relevant legislation.
Therefore, in 2019, Ben Holden Ltd reviewed the relevant legislation, the BABICM guidance and held detailed discussions with Regional Registration Managers at the CQC, regarding the requirement for the Company to register based on the services we provided. In the past, we were not requried to be registered as the Company was not invovled with support packages providing regulated activity. In 2021, Ben Holden Ltd has decided to diversify services.
In 2021, a new steering group was established at Ben Holden Ltd to research and develop our Company activity in relation to expanding our services regarding directly recruitng support workers for our cleints.
We are presently in negotiations to employ a new Clinical Manager and Registered Manager for Ben Holden Ltd. We are already in process of preparing our application for registration with the CQC and aim to complete this later this year.
Watch this space for further updates.