All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 12
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NewsJuniors breach 72-hour week at trust with previous training concerns
Trainee doctors at a special measures trust worked more than 72 hours in one week after being asked to do seven 10-hour shifts in a row.
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NewsNHS ‘overcrowded with regulators’, says watchdog
The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has warned of an “overcrowding of regulators”, following proposals made by the Cumberlege report for a new independent patient safety commissioner.
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NewsTrust failed to complete 21 instructions from safety review
Only two out of 23 recommendations from a royal college review into a trust’s troubled maternity services can be shown to be fully implemented, a new investigation has revealed.
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NewsRevealed: Complaints about ‘manner’ of CQC chief before short-lived resignation
Senior mental health leaders complained about the ‘manner’ in which a senior Care Quality Commission inspector had talked about challenges facing the sector – one week before he announced his resignation to staff, it has emerged.
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NewsRevealed: The serious care failings the NHS tried to keep secret
The NHS has kept secret dozens of external reviews of failings in local services – covering possible premature deaths, unnecessary and harmful operations, and rows among doctors putting patients at risk – an HSJ investigation has found.
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NewsCQC plan to restart inspections needed like ‘hole in head’, says Confed
The Care Quality Commission has issued a plan for re-starting routine inspections — but has been warned by the NHS Confederation that the health service needs this ‘like a hole in the head’.
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NewsHospital rated ‘inadequate’ following allegations of abuse by staff
Patients in an independent mental health hospital were not being protected from abuse, the Care Quality Commission has found.
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NewsStaff urged to share covid-19 test results with their trust
NHS staff are being encouraged to share their covid-19 test results with their employers, which do not receive them automatically because of privacy rules, sparking concern among some leaders.
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HSJ LocalFormer special measures trust sees main hospital rated ‘outstanding’
An acute trust which spent more than two years in special measures has had its main hospital site rated “outstanding” by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsExclusive: ‘Fundamental’ changes to London’s NHS in wake of covid-19
The NHS in London is planning to “fundamentally shift the way we deliver health and care” in the wake of coronavirus, according to documents obtained by HSJ.
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CommentA public inquiry into the UK’s response to coronavirus must begin now
Former Department of Health permanent secretary Una O’Brien says work on a covid-19 inquiry must start now and will need innovation on a previously unimaginable scale
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NewsCQC ‘breaking law’ by suspending inspections
The Care Quality Commission is breaking human rights and equalities laws by deciding not to carry out routine inspections of care homes and hospitals, older people’s and disabled groups have argued.
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NewsCQC to call providers to decide whether inspections needed
The Care Quality Commission will call healthcare providers to decide whether they need to be inspected during the covid-19 epidemic.
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News‘Systematic reviews’ to discover true cause of outbreak deaths
There should be detailed investigations to establish the different causes of deaths during the covid-19 pandemic, possibly in the autumn, pathologists have said.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Schrodinger’s Virus
Andy Cowper on how real problems persist with the availability of PPE supply
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NewsScandal-hit trust rated ‘inadequate’ again
A scandal-hit hospital trust has been rated “inadequate” for the second time in a row, after inspectors found serious patient safety concerns at its two emergency departments.
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NewsSome maternity inspections suspended to ‘minimise impact on trusts’
Routine investigations into maternity incidents involving babies treated for oxygen deprivation at birth, but with no apparent brain injuries, have been suspended.
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HSJ LocalPatient deaths linked to long-standing failings at trust’s maternity unit
A previously unpublished report has laid bare multiple failings in a remote trust’s maternity department.
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NewsReport: Unannounced CQC visits may have exposed Whorlton Hall quicker
The scandalous failings at Whorlton Hall exposed by undercover reporters could have been detected sooner by the Care Quality Commission if it had carried out more unannounced visits, a new independent review has concluded.
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NewsNICE finds new chief to replace retiring founder
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s deputy chief executive will replace founding CEO Sir Andrew Dillon, after he steps down this month.