All Care Quality Commission (CQC) articles – Page 14
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NewsTrust receives record fine for maternity care failure
An acute trust has been fined a record sum by the Care Quality Commission for failing to provide safe maternity care, which resulted in the death of a baby after 23 minutes.
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News‘Insufficient leadership’ as maternity unit drops two ratings to ‘inadequate’
A maternity service has been served a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission and downgraded from “good” to “inadequate”.
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NewsPolice and CQC investigate serious incidents at trust
A series of concerns about serious incidents at a mental health trust are being investigated by the Care Quality Commission, with a referral also made to the police, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCQC names worst trusts for maternity care
The trusts with substantially worse experience of maternity care have been identified by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsFour urgent care centres in one ICS placed in special measures
The Care Quality Commission has placed the four urgent treatment centres run by a private provider in a single system into special measures.
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HSJ Local‘Tearful’ staff raise patient safety concerns to CQC
An inspection of a hospital has found all wards were understaffed, while ‘tearful [and] exhausted’ clinicians raised patient safety concerns to the regulator.
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NewsCQC releases staff to help with winter crisis
Staff at the Care Quality Commission have been released to volunteer for frontline work at trusts during the winter crisis, the regulator has announced.
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NewsConfusion over changes to CQC inspections signalled by Barclay
The Care Quality Commission is to ‘adjust’ its ‘regulatory activity for the rest of winter’ in an effort to help ‘increase capacity in both adult social care and the NHS’.
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NewsExclusive: Some ICSs need ‘an awful lot of central control’, says Hewitt
Some integrated care systems still require ‘an awful lot of control’ from the centre, Patricia Hewitt has told HSJ, tempering any expectations that her government-commissioned review will bring about a wholesale roll-back of national performance management.
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NewsHSJ’s 10 most read mental health stories of 2022
As we get ready to bid farewell to 2022, HSJ looks back at the 10 most read mental health stories of the year.
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NewsCQC delays ‘targeted’ inspection overhaul after staff protest
The Care Quality Commission has delayed rolling out its new approach to inspections by almost a year, following concern from its staff and a need to give ‘providers time to prepare’.
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HSJ LocalTrust drops from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’
A teaching hospital that was lauded for its culture and championed by ministers has been downgraded from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’ by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsWatchdog stops monitoring trust over sexual harassment
An ambulance trust will no longer be monitored by the UK’s equality watchdog over sexual harassment.
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CommentICSs should prioritise not for profit social care
The first in a series of articles commissioned by HSJ from the National Care Forum to explore the most pressing issues in the care sector. Professor Rayner, a regular national and international speaker, shares her thoughts on why social care should be for people, not for profit
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HSJ LocalTrust fined following patient’s death linked to ‘outdated’ IT system
A Norfolk hospital trust has been fined £60,000 after pleading guilty to criminal charges of exposing a 28-year-old patient who died to significant risk of avoidable harm.
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NewsCQC could be given ‘enhanced’ role following Hewitt review
The government’s rapid review of integrated care systems will look to “enhance” the role of the Care Quality Commission in regulating them, and will issue its first recommendations in 10 days.
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NewsSpecial measures label ‘hurts people’, says trust CEO
The ‘special measures’ label unquestionably hurts staff morale, according to the chief executive of a trust that is hoping to move out of the highest level of oversight for the first time in five years.
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NewsConsultant refused to carry out urgent surgery at trust facing criticism from CQC
A consultant surgeon refused to attend hospital to carry out urgent surgery at a trust which later had upper gastrointestinal surgery suspended after an unannounced Care Quality Commission visit.
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CommentPeople harmed by the NHS are still being left to fend for themselves
A recently published report highlights the shortcomings in care provided by the NHS. Peter Walsh, Joanne Hughes and James Titcombe emphasise how millions could be saved if people were empowered early on to have their needs met without the need to turn to litigation
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LeaderThe Hewitt review could fundamentally change the way the NHS operates
To understand the nature and importance of Patricia Hewitt’s review of the role of integrated care systems announced last week it is necessary to understand its highly unusual genesis.