It has been announced by the Care Quality Commission that for bringing a difference in the way social care and health services are regulated, a chief inspector of social care might be appointed.

Prime minister David Cameron has also announced that a chief inspector of hospitals will be appointed by the CQC for leading a new specialist hospitals inspection regime and this will monitor acute trusts.

Cameron had responded to the report filed into the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry yesterday by announcing this. The report pointed out that there were many failings that led to neglect and deaths at the Stafford Hospital.

Robert Francis had filed the report and he in his report stated that a set of fundamental standards should be introduced for hospitals and these should be supervised by CQC inspectors.

There were about 290 recommendations made in the report and the government will respond to these recommendations the next month.

Cameron said, "The CQC should appoint a chief inspector of hospitals to establish a new inspections regime based on "quality of care", not "bureaucratic box ticking", starting this autumn."