All Care Quality Commission (CQC) articles – Page 131
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Comment
Collaboration will improve the ambulance service
NHS and private companies can together create a better service
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HSJ Local
James Paget appoints new CEO
WORKFORCE James Paget University Hospitals Foundation Trust has appointed Christine Allen as its new chief executive.
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Comment
What a 'duty of candour' means in practice
Candour permeates Robert Francis’ 290 recommendations
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Comment
Monitor’s future is in the balance sheet
Francis’ recommendations for Monitor and the CQC were unsurprising
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News
Analysis: system rejects Francis single regulator plans
Robert Francis QC’s proposal for a single quality and finance regulator looks unlikely to be realised after key players rejected the idea. However, the government is working on plans to stiffen the consequences for boards that preside over care failures, HSJ has learned.
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News
New criminal powers for CQC would need a higher level of proof
The Care Quality Commission would need to increase its standards of proof if it is to make use of new powers to bring criminal prosecutions as proposed in the Francis report, lawyers have warned.
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Leader
Francis report: sensible, verbose, impractical
The government response will need much consideration
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News
Francis: slow down FT pipeline to ensure safety
Robert Francis QC has backed the slowing down of the foundation trust pipeline process in order to “make sure” trusts completing the process are safe.
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News
Exclusive: Hunt says Monitor will survive and run 'failure regime'
Monitor will survive and is likely to take regulation and enforcement action, while the Care Quality Commission focuses on inspection, Jeremy Hunt has told HSJ.
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News
Lawyers and managers concerned as Francis recommends criminalising 'duty of candour' failures
Robert Francis QC has recommended it be made a crime to obstruct the duty of candour or make an “untruthful statement to a commissioner or regulator”.
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News
UPDATED Exclusive: CQC does not want to take on Monitor roles
The Care Quality Commission wants to avoid merging with Monitor if at all possible, HSJ has been told.
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News
Cameron: Failure regime will be for poor care, not just poor finances
David Cameron today said the government would extend the NHS “failure regime” to allow trust boards to be suspended for failures of care, as well as financial management failures.
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News
NHS faces new laws on honesty
New laws should be brought in requiring all NHS staff and directors to be open and honest when mistakes happen, the Francis report has recommended.
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News
Updated: Francis calls for a beefed up CQC as single quality regulator
The Care Quality Commission should take on responsibility for “corporate governance” and “financial competence” alongside quality, Robert Francis QC has recommended.
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News
Government backs down from plan to abolish specialist regulators
The government has backed down from plans to abolish two specialist regulators and transfer the majority of their responsibilities to the Care Quality Commission.
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Blogs
Evidence, not newspaper exaggeration, should direct debates about care quality
The Foundation Trust Network has evidence The Sunday Telegraph’s story about “dangerously low staffing levels” at NHS hospitals has been greatly exaggerated, as FTN chief executive Chris Hopson explains.
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News
Two CQC executives resign
Two members of the Care Quality Commission’s executive team have handed in their notice, HSJ has learned.
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News
CQC moves to assess trust leadership in response to Francis
The Care Quality Commission is to assess the leadership, culture and governance of acute services in the NHS and the corporate governance of private sector care providers, HSJ has learned.
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News
Regulator to cap Queen's Hospital A&E admissions
The Care Quality Commission is to place a restriction on the number of patients that can be treated at an east London emergency department.