All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 112
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NHS trusts 'give incorrect performance data'
More than half of hospital trusts inspected last year provided the public with incorrect information on their performance and quality of care, it has been claimed.
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Monitor intervenes at Milton Keynes over maternity care
Monitor has ordered Milton Keynes Foundation Trust to hire external clinical experts to speed up improvements to its maternity care.
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Heart surgery suspended as deaths investigated
John Radcliffe Hospital is investigating the deaths of four children who underwent heart operations there in recent months.
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Weak NHS managers could be ‘struck off’
Plans to “strike off” underperforming managers have been announced by Gordon Brown as a way of dealing with failures such as the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust scandal.
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Timeline: NHS manager scandals
1999 Robert Francis QC acts as counsel for United Bristol Healthcare Trust chief executive Dr John Roylance after he is struck off by the GMC, following the Bristol babies heart scandal. Mr Francis stresses Dr Roylance was not criticised for his work as a practising doctor, but as a manager.October ...
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Management quality: recommendations
Recommendations of the advisory group on assuring the quality of senior NHS managers.
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NHS leaders on manager regulation
“I don’t think any regulatory process should be punitive, that’s not its purpose.” - General Medical Council chief executive Niall Dickson “There are a million ways to do the job which are short of statutory regulation.” - MiP chief executive Jon Restell “We have to consider the issue of people ...
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Gordon Brown’s knee-jerk reaction to Mid Staffs is doomed to failure
Gordon Brown wants the power to strike you off.
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Monitor claims its quality bar is now set high enough
The new system of regulation will stand up to the scrutiny of a new inquiry into its role around Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, Monitor believes.
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One in 10 concerned about own trust's care standards
One in 10 NHS staff believe the poor care seen at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust may be experienced by patients at their own trust, an HSJ poll suggests.
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GMC opens consultation on doctor revalidation
Doctors will have to be tested on their performance and undergo annual appraisals under plans to overhaul medical regulation being put out to consultation.
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Basildon 'guilty' over patient death
Officials at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust in Essex have today pleaded guilty to health and safety failings that led to the death of a patient with learning disabilities.
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The Francis report's 18 recommendations
The conclusions of the inquiry into Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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Priorities for quality pilots
GP practices, community service providers, community pharmacists and out of hours providers will be expected to set out at least three, but no more than five, priorities for quality improvement each year, if pilot proposals become the template for primary care quality accounts due to be introduced next year.
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PCTs call for lighter commissioning assessment
Primary care trust chief executives are calling for “lighter touch” assessment of their progress on commissioning, despite efforts made by the Department of Health to ease the process.
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Dream of taking on ailing trusts founders on rocks of Good Hope
With just five weeks to go before non-foundation trusts have to outline their plans for joining the elite, there are severe doubts about the government’s aspiration for foundation trusts to rescue weaker hospitals.
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Rescue plan for ailing hospitals in doubt
The government’s aspiration for foundation trusts to take over failing hospitals appears in significant doubt, a month away from the deadline for agreeing the future for all acutes.
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Remit announced for investigation of regulatory bodies post Mid Staffs
Senior figures from the NHS and regulatory world are likely to have to appear before a new independent investigation of commissioning, supervisory and regulatory bodies that was announced today.
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Don't use death rates to predict real deaths, Mid Staffs inquiry warns
The independent inquiry into failings at Mid Staffordshire has found hospital standardised mortality ratios should not be used to predict real numbers of avoidable deaths at the trust.
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'Unsuccessful management' of Mid Staffs criticised
The previous management of Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been criticised as unsuccessful by the independent inquiry into failings at the trust.