All Care Quality Commission (CQC) articles – Page 52
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: Not a good look
Essential insight into NHS matters in the North West of England, with a particular focus on the devolution project in Greater Manchester. Contact me in confidence here.
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News
DHSC slaps down quangos over Brexit messages
Arm’s-length bodies are having to send every text, tweet, email, phone call and press release that touches on Brexit to the Department of Health and Social Care for clearance – with some having to be approved by ministers and the Department for Exiting the European Union.
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News
Regulator quits central IT plans after Hancock's Google intervention
The Care Quality Commission has pulled out of a joint plan to replace central IT systems after Matt Hancock intervened and suggested switching to Google.
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News
Community and MH nurse numbers rise for first time since 2009
The number of registered nurses working in NHS community and mental health services have risen year on year for the first time, after almost a decade of decline.
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HSJ Local
MPs 'incredulous' over trust chair's reappointment
Four MPs in Dudley have raised concerns over the reappointment of their local trust’s chair, ahead of the publication of a report into whistleblowing claims against its executive directors.
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News
Mental health services provider's hospital put in special measures
A major provider of inpatient learning disability and mental health services has had one of its hospitals placed into special measures by the Care Quality Commission, which raised concerns staff failed to respond to urgent requests from patients in seclusion.
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HSJ Interactive
Embedding the learning from speaking up
Moving from a blame culture to a learning culture is an integral part of Freedom to Speak Up. Dr Henrietta Hughes explains how the National Guardian’s Office is helping organisations embed learning through its case review process
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News
Excellence awards should be withheld at failing trusts, CQC said
The Care Quality Commission said clinical excellence awards should be routinely withheld from senior medics at trusts in special measures, according to documents obtained by HSJ.
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: What works in networks?
The NHS long term plan says networks are going to offer solutions to many of the NHS’ problems but the NHS is a hierarchy and bureaucracy and these three are not organic bedfellows, notes Andy Cowper
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News
New chief executive for £1bn+ trust
One of the NHS’s biggest hospital trusts has appointed a new chief executive.
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HSJ Local
Ex-CQC boss appointed as trust chair
A former Care Quality Commission boss has been appointed as chair of Alder Hey Children’s Foundation Trust.
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HSJ Local
Children at risk of harm at general hospital, warns CQC
Children being cared for at a district general hospital’s emergency department are at risk of harm, the Care Quality Commission has found, shortly after raising similar concerns late last year.
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News
'Disappointed' CQC forced to drop system inspections
The Care Quality Commission has been forced to abandon its local system review programme after the Department of Health and Social Care ignored a request for approval to continue.
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News
CCG backs downgrade of 'temporarily closed' A&E
Commissioners are set to approve the permanent downgrade of the A&E department at the country’s smallest hospital trust.
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News
'Bullying culture' trust chief exec quits
The chief executive of a teaching hospital with a “bullying culture” is stepping down.
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News
CQC warning over use of nursing associates
The Care Quality Commission has warned NHS trusts not to consider nursing associates the same as registered nurses, adding it will expect evidence demonstrating the new role is being used safely.
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HSJ Local
Leading chair appointed to special measures trust
The chair of an outstanding trust has been appointed to lead Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust, which is in special measures.
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Expert Briefing
North by North West: All change at the top
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HSJ Local
Major trust CEO takes hospital job in Qatar
The chief executive of a large acute trust in the north west is set to leave at the end of March after accepting a job to run a hospital in Qatar.
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News
CQC appoints first chief digital officer
The Care Quality Commission has appointed its first chief digital officer, who will have executive responsibility for transforming IT.