All Policy and regulation articles – Page 72
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: On dismantling fences
The current state of the NHS is analogous to a rotting, heavily broken fence, for which some heavy duty wirecutters are needed, says Andy Cowper
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News
Exclusive: Dozens more maternity failings exposed at scandal hit trust
Dozens more cases of poor care have been uncovered at a hospital’s maternity service, which is already under investigation for failing 23 families, HSJ has learned.
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News
CQC warning amid claim hospital patients treated like 'cattle'
A troubled trust has been warned it could face enforcement action by the CQC amid claims by its own staff patients were being treated like “animals and cattle” in “unsafe, demeaning, undignified, and disgusting” conditions.
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Comment
More intelligent approach needed to redesign outpatient services
With outpatient activity often ignored in policy creation, Nigel Edwards delineates the learnings from an event held to hear from people who have fundamentally changed outpatient services
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News
New chief executive of The King's Fund revealed
Richard Murray has been appointed chief executive of The King’s Fund.
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Expert Briefing
Mental Health Matters: What should we expect from the long term plan?
This is HSJ’s fortnightly briefing covering quality, performance and finances in the mental health sector. Feedback and comments are welcome - email me in confidence.
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News
More than nine out of 10 hospitals fail to publish registers of interest
Only 5 per cent of NHS hospital trusts published a register of interests for their senior staff despite it being a contractual obligation.
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Comment
“Non-clinical compassion”; the forgotten value
Ali Raza, Vlad Kovach and Amanda Maunders make a case for kindling “non-clinical compassion” into healthcare policy thinking, citing examples of how Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust is trying to integrate a compassionate outlook in non-clinical work
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Comment
Cowper’s Cut: On nearly dismantling fences
Andy Cowper gives the lowdown on the interesting, the inane and the insane in the NHS in the past week
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News
CQC tribunal win sparks community capacity fears
The care quality watchdog has won an appeal to stop a private care provider increasing the number of beds for people with learning difficulties.
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News
David Dalton: Use NHS trusts not management consultants to solve problems
The NHS should stop spending money on management consultants and instead pay well performing trusts to help turnaround troubled organisations, Sir David Dalton has told HSJ.
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News
NHS told not to stockpile medication ahead of a 'no-deal' Brexit
NHS organisations should not spend money on “unnecessary” local stockpiling of medicine ahead of a possible no-deal Brexit.
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HSJ Local
Private emergency care centre in special measures
A privately run emergency and urgent care centre at an Essex hospital has been put into special measures by the Care Quality Commission after it rated the service inadequate.
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News
Councils' delayed transfers of care reductions 'saved NHS £60m'
Councils have saved the NHS nearly £60m by dramatically reducing the number of days patients are delayed in hospitals due to a lack of social care availability, according to new research.
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News
Majority of NHS managers back professional regulation - survey
A majority of senior NHS managers supported the introduction of regulation for their profession in a survey by the union Managers in Partnership, which it is submitting to a government review.
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News
Campaign group wins right to appeal ACO ruling
The Court of Appeal has granted a campaign group permission to appeal a judicial review ruling it lost against NHS England in May.
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News
CQC investigates trust over 'duty of candour' breach
The Care Quality Commission could take action against an NHS trust after a coroner exposed its poor handling of a patient death and failure to follow duty of candour rules.
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News
CQC upgrades 'inadequate' maternity unit
A West Midlands trust has managed to improve its CQC rating for maternity services from “inadequate” to “requires improvement”.
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News
'Alarming' figures show thousands still waiting too long for wheelchairs
Thousands of disabled children who need a wheelchair are still being forced to wait more than four months from the time of their referral to the equipment being delivered, an exclusive HSJ analysis of official data has revealed.
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News
Exclusive: CQC proposes universal rules to cut 'never events'
Universal standard operating procedures for clinicians to follow could be introduced across the NHS to try and cut the number of never event mistakes, HSJ has learned.