Ben is joined by Emily Townsend for a round-up of this week’s inspections of the inspectors at the Care Quality Commission. The stricken regulator will soon be under new leadership and will be delivering a quite different oversight regime from the NHS and social care. But how? And what might the Dash reviews of other parts of the safety super-structure reveal?

Then HSJ’s Alison Moore takes us through her much-discussed story of a trust which eliminated year-long waits – was it really all down to employing an administrator?

The team also discuss the NHS’s most famous cat.

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