All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 138
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HSJ Knowledge
Patient safety survey: those in peril
An HSJ poll has uncovered widespread under-reporting of safety failures, while national monitoring processes need a major overhaul. Charlotte Santry looks at the results
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News
Baroness Young confirmed as Care Quality chair
Health secretary Alan Johnson has confirmed the appointment of Baroness Barbara Young as chair of the new Care Quality Commission.The cross-bench peer will earn £79,014 a year for the three-day-a-week role - more than the advertised £60,780 salary.
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News
Barbara Young backed as Care Quality Commission chair
Health select committee MPs have backed Baroness Young as a suitable candidate to chair the new Care Quality Commission.
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News
National GP assessment to aid choice
Primary care trusts will be able to assess GP practice performance against a national standard for the first time under a new primary medical care provider accreditation scheme
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News
Inquiry reveals gap in paediatric training
Children and young people with life-threatening illnesses are not being treated appropriately because the health professionals caring for them are not trained in paediatrics, the world's first confidential inquiry into child deaths has found.
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News
Patient satisfaction varies massively, survey shows
The proportion of inpatients rating their hospital care as 'excellent' varies massively between the best and the worst trusts, a survey by the Healthcare Commission has found.
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News
Barbara Young sets out vision for Care Quality Commission
Baroness Barbara Young, who is in line to chair the new Care Quality Commission, told MPs today: 'I really want this job.'The Labour peer, who is currently chief executive of the Environment Agency, underwent a grilling by the health select committee in the new-style public job interview.
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News
Scottish Health and Safety Executive appoints director
Dr Paul Stollard has taken up post as the new director of the Health and Safety Executive in Scotland.
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HSJ Knowledge
Perfect union: why partnerships must seek local public opinion
The health service has a long history of joint working. To build on this, it must recognise local need as a bigger priority than targets and keep decision makers close to communities
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News
Foundation trusts must improve on MRSA
Monitor has warned four foundation trusts it will intervene if they fail to improve performance on MRSA. Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals, Calderdale and Huddersfield, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals and Poole Hospital were told they had breached their terms of authorisation.
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News
Barbara Young to chair Care Quality Commission
The proposed chair of the new super-regulator has been welcomed as an 'inspirational' leader. Baroness Barbara Young, currently the Environment Agency chief executive, has been named as the Department of Health's preferred candidate to chair the shadow Care Quality Commission.
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News
NHS Western Isles criticised for financial failings
The Scottish Parliament's audit committee has found serious failings in the running of NHS Western Isles and condemned its persistent failure to put in place adequate financial controls.
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HSJ Knowledge
Mental health history: taking over the asylum
In our latest feature marking the NHS’s 60th anniversary, Mark Gould charts the journey from Victorian asylums to the national service framework and recent backward steps
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News
Care Quality chair to be scrutinised by MPs
The health select committee will scrutinise the proposed new chair of the Care Quality Commission, Barbara Young, before her appointment is made official.
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News
Leicestershire Partnership trust rapped over killer's treatment
An independent review has criticised a mental health trust's treatment of a man who was repeatedly in contact with its services but went on to kill one neighbour and injure another.
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Comment
Jon Restell on information overload
Outsiders in their first few months in the NHS as, say, non-executive directors, are often aghast at the vast amount of information reporting that is required.
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News
Health check rating benchmarks 'unfair'
Trusts are being unfairly marked down in their annual performance ratings because of changing targets and over-reliance on patient data, according to managers.
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News
Peers turn against Care Quality Commission
Peers have urged the government to delay the establishment of the new health and social care regulator, warning that the body will be 'weakened by compromise'.
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News
Care Quality Commission chair announced
A former health manager has been revealed as the proposed chair of the new health and social care super-regulator.
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News
Scotland settles drug price-fixing claim
Scottish ministers and health boards have settled a civil claim against a pharmaceutical company for allegedly fixing the price the NHS is charged for drugs with other pharmaceutical companies.