All Care Quality Commission (CQC) articles – Page 159
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CQC to get tougher on NHS spending
The Care Quality Commission is to step up its focus on ensuring NHS commissioners get value for money ahead of the predicted public spending squeeze.
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CommentDon Redding on patient experience
We demand other industries deliver standards that all customers recognise, and so we should also insist on patient experience benchmarking across the NHS
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NewsCQC names high death-rate NHS trusts
NHS trusts with unusually high death rates that have sparked alerts have been revealed today for the first time in a move aimed at promoting accountability and patient safety.
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LeaderHigh death rates or just more data headaches: it’s no contest
The health service has taken a brave step on the quality road this week with the publication of the names of trusts over the last two years where unusually high death rates triggered alerts with the regulator.
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£10m deficit trust board will focus on patient safety
Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals foundation trust has stepped up board-level patient safety checks while implementing around 100 cost-improvement initiatives.
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Panicky response to Mid Staffs scandal could erode FT freedoms
The government is threatening the independence of foundation trusts.
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NewsAmbulance services: urgent attention for non-emergency care
Complex forces at work in urgent care mean too many costly ambulance trips are being taken by non-emergency patients. Dave West analyses the figures and looks at the explanations
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NewsHealthcare watchdogs could suspend NHS inspections during crisis
The Care Quality Commission plans to suspend a “whole suite of activities” such as hygiene inspections if the flu pandemic worsens.
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NewsCommunity treatment order fears confirmed
Fears that supervised community treatment orders would be disproportionately imposed on patients from ethnic minorities have proven to be founded.
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NewsTrust chief moves to SHA before critical report
A chief executive at a trust that “tolerated poor and mediocre practices” and failed to properly investigate serious incidents has been given a job at NHS London.
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News'Troublingly low' levels of funding to prevent another Baby P
A review of child protection arrangements in NHS organisations carried out in light of the Baby Peter tragedy has found “troublingly low” levels of funding and staff training.
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NewsCost of regulation merger reaches into millions
Health regulators have spent millions on failing IT systems, empty offices and redundancy payments.
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NewsConcerns over CQC costs spark 'bonfire of the quangos' scrutiny
Politicians have this week pledged another “bonfire of the quangos”.
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HSJ KnowledgeThe calm after the storm: what chief executives do after 'goodbye'
NHS chief executive is a high profile job and every now and then one such leader suffers a public execution - but these days there is no guarantee of another job in the system for those who leave under a cloud. Alison Moore asks what fate has in store for ...
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NewsTories to scrutinise Monitor and CQC in plans to slash quangos
Every quango, including the Care Quality Commission, Monitor and the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence will be reviewed by the Conservative Party to assess whether it should be closed or scaled back.
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NewsHealth committee 'saddened' by patient safety failures
NHS boards “too often” prioritise governance, finances and targets above patient safety, the Commons health committee said today.
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Monitor and CQC must co-ordinate, not duplicate
Is the foundation trust regulator Monitor becoming isolationist?
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HSJ KnowledgeChanging NHS end of life care for the better
Most people say they would prefer to die at home but many do not as end of life care has traditionally been neglected. But it looks as if things are finally starting to change
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CommentHow to create a culture of safety in the NHS
Almost every week, there are examples of poorly co-ordinated healthcare in the national papers: a “hospital blunder” here, a “scandal” there. But what will really wake clinicians up are the failures at Mid Staffordshire.
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HSJ KnowledgeGP phone-line jams create more hospital admissions
Few things are more frustrating than an automated message saying your phone call is in a queue and will be answered shortly -or just getting the engaged tone. When you are ill, it can be rather more than just one of life’s little irritations, writes Kaye McIntosh.