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The Care Quality Commission (CQC) this week published The State of Care, a report that sets out how well health care and social care services in England performed in 2009, and the improvements leading up to 2009.
This year's report is the first time that CQC can give a complete picture of health care and adult social care in England "“ including how well the two sectors work together. 

Some of the findings from this report, published February 2010 have bene highlighted to show:

• what's working well
• where care services need to improve
• how CQC's work over the next five years will help to tackle challenges around improving services.

CQC has developed online version highlights some of the findings from this report, with videos and people's personal stories about using care.

www.cqc.org.uk/stateofcare/aboutthestateofcare.cfm