Why Risk-based Regulation of Healthcare Quality in the NHS Cannot Succeed Anne-Laure Beaussier,* Department of Geography, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R David Demeritt, Department of Geography, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS Alex Griffiths, Care Quality Commission and Department of Management, King’s College London Henry Rothstein, Department of Geography, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS *Corresponding author: anne-laure.beaussier@kcl.ac.uk HowSAFE working paper 5 5 August 2015 Research for this Working Paper was supported by a grant awarded through the Open Research Area Programme for the Social Sciences jointly funded by the ESRC (ES/K006169/1), DFG, ANR, and NOW (http://tinyurl.com/howsafe-project).