Patients Association chief executive Katherine Murphy says the idea is right for many care home residents.
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Mike Stone, director of the Patients Association, said he was "delighted" by the GMC decision.
Patients Association chairman Michael Summers said the new system was an improvement on star ratings.
Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said there was a "huge degree of confusion" about the issue.
Margaret Watt, chairperson of the Scotland Patients Association, said the pilot "showed the Scottish government was listening".
In November the Patients Association published a report containing 16 "shameful" stories about the care of elderly patients.
Patients Association chief executive Katherine Murphy said it was important to "look beyond statistics and properly assess patient experience".
Patients Association chief executive Katherine Murphy described parking charges as "exorbitant" for those who have to attend hospital regularly.
Michael Summers, a trustee of the Patients Association, was sceptical as to whether such a ban could be enforced.
Katherine Murphy, the chief executive of the Patients Association, said the report was a "watershed moment" for the health service.
Katherine Murphy, chief executive of The Patients Association, said patients regularly contacted their helpline about poor standards of food in hospital.
Dr Jibani's citation says he has raised money for the Welsh Kidney Patients Association by leading the annual ramble through Snowdonia.
Mike Stone, from the Patients Association, said that root-and-branch reform was needed.
The Patients Association has also warned people against using internet treatment services.
The CQC said it had been working with the Patients Association to tap into the problems that were being reported to them.
The Patients Association, which campaigns for patients, said people would be concerned to hear their hospital had closed, however short the period of time.
The Patients Association said that people had been "appallingly" let down.
Indeed, studies by the likes of the Patients Association and Care Quality Commission, which replaced the Healthcare Commission, have raised concerns about standards.
The Patients Association said the plans must be translated into action.
It is these sorts of lapses that have been highlighted in critical reports by both the Patients Association and Care Quality Commission in recent weeks.
His intervention comes after both the Care Quality Commission and Patients Association published reports towards the end of last year raising concerns about the quality of care.
Meanwhile, the Patients Association published a dossier of 13 "appalling" cases of care given to NHS patients to highlight what it said was a wider malaise.
But Patients Association chief executive Katherine Murphy said patient care - including helping with feeding and taking patients to the toilet - should be carried out by nurses.
Some of the most depressing cases involve dementia patients - as shown in the dossier of "appalling" cases highlighted by the Patients Association a few weeks ago.
But in this week's Scrubbing Up, Katherine Murphy of the Patients Association calls for more action to help the millions in the UK whose malnutrition is "unnoticed, unheard and unsupported".
Michael Watson, from the Patients Association, welcomed the move.
Katherine Murphy, of the Patients Association, said she agreed there was still much to do to improve care, but she said the "friends and family" test was too simplified to drive improvements.
The Patients Association described the report as "distressing", while Michelle Mitchell, of Age UK, said such overcrowding was creating a situation whereby the chances of older patients receiving high quality care was "stacked against them".
In the past year critical reports by the likes of the Patients Association and Care Quality Commission have raised concerns about the culture that is allowed to develop in some places, leading to failings in basic care.
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