All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 128
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Cynthia Bower on CQC staffing issues highlighted in HSJ
I could have used this space to carp about your coverage of the Care Quality Commission last week, but I'd rather focus on the positive and look at what we have achieved in such a short time.
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Easy does it as NHS steps up to quality bat
Central to the next stage review is the demand to improve services - and demonstrate it. So how are NHS organisations planning to measure quality and how long will funding hold out? Dave West finds out
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Audit optional on new quality accounts
Providers will not have to have their quality accounts audited or validated.
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Monitor takes fight for FT freedoms to the House of Lords
Monitor has launched a challenge to the government in Parliament to protect foundation trust freedoms and its role as their regulator.The regulator believes proposals in the Health Bill compromise foundation trusts' independence by requiring them to send quality accounts to the health secretary.
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Unions confront Care Quality Commission over jobs
The Care Quality Commission is heading for clashes with unions before it has even launched.With just over a month until the commission absorbs the three health and social care watchdogs, around 300 staff are still in the dark about their fate.
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'Remarkable' PCT beats crisis
The recovery of a primary care trust dogged by financial and performance failings has been dubbed 'remarkable'.Brent PCT was criticised for an 'arrogant and isolated' approach, 'serious failings' of corporate governance, 'very poor' financial oversight and creating a 'schism' between itself and its GPs, in a report published last year.
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Leader
Lords quality accounts fight may cause an unpleasant sensation
The latest scrap between Monitor and the Department of Health has just kicked off in the House of Lords.
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NHS trusts criticised over poor complaint handling
Trusts are failing to respond to patient complaints adequately, a Healthcare Commission review has found.Almost half of the 8,949 complaints reviewed in the year up to July 2008 were upheld or sent back to the trust for further work.
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HSJ Knowledge
Added values: improving learning disabilities services
People with learning disabilities are entitled to the same high quality healthcare as other patients, but serious cases of abuse and neglect suggest the NHS is far from meeting its obligations. Kaye McIntosh reports on the work now under way to turn this around
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HSJ KnowledgeQuality information assurance: an understanding of governance, risk and compliance
Lord Darzi’s review and world class commissioning promise to bring positive changes to patient experience and drive up the quality of services. However, the sharing of information these agendas promote demands that quality information assurance is now a top priority in your trust.
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Comment
Hilary Thomas on NHS clinical governance and the credit crunch
I had the good fortune to attend a breast cancer conference in the US recently. Nearly a decade after I stopped treating breast cancer, this was in my role as a trustee of Breakthrough Breast Cancer.
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Double weak PCT gets new chairman
Great Yarmouth and Waveney primary care trust has appointed a new chairman.
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Health watchdog handover is on 'red risk'
Crucial staffing and financial decisions regarding the handover from the Healthcare Commission to the Care Quality Commission are still unresolved just two months before the new body takes over.
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Wife of CQC man joins its board
The Care Quality Commission has appointed the wife of its transition director to a board level position as director of engagement.
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NHS Confederation backtracks over SHA claims
The NHS Confederation has been forced to clarify its position on strategic health authorities after one of its senior policy managers last week called for a major rethink of their role under a new regulatory regime.
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Lisa Rodrigues on NHS kindness
At the end of 2008, King's Fund chief executive Niall Dickson was reported as saying that NHS staff have lost their compassion and that his organisation wants to help bring it back. I could not agree less.
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Care Quality Commission could make SHAs redundant
The NHS Confederation has called for a major rethink of strategic health authorities' roles in light of the new regulatory regime.
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Patient death sparks review of independent treatment centre
The Healthcare Commission has announced a review of services at an independent treatment centre in Yorkshire following the inquest into the death of a patient in 2007.
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Scotland unveils new patient safety reporting system
Scottish health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has introduced a new system of reporting healthcare-associated infections for hospitals.
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Maidstone praised for infection control progress
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust has been praised for the progress it has made on tackling infection control - but trust managers have been warned they should not relax.The Healthcare Commission made a series of visits to the trust in October and November - a year after its critical report ...