All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 163
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NAO quizzed on 'glowing' IT report
The National Audit Office has been told to continue to monitor the progress of the national programme for IT in the NHS after producing a report which surprised MPs with its positive conclusions.
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Performance: patients' reviews to go online
Patients will be given the chance to rate the service they have received from GPs and hospitals on a website set up by Department of Health.
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New guidance revolutionises NHS waste management
A recent Department of Health memorandum looks set to cause the greatest shake up of waste management within the NHS since the disappearance of the hospital incinerator.
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Healthcheck ratings: tougher test means story must be retold
The Healthcare Commission said it would be a tougher test - and so it has proved. In the first national healthcheck ratings only two dozen organisations were rated excellent for service quality, and even fewer for their use of resources. Only half of NHS organisations met all the core standards, ...
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Hewitt hints at likely loss of Monitor regulatory role
Monitor is expected to lose its current regulatory role in the government's review of healthcare regulation, although a decision on its future will not be taken until the autumn.
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Noel Plumridge on PFI passions running high
'Call a handyman to fit a notice board? Oh no, you'll need a quote from the PFI company'
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How to be top
What is the secret of healthcheck ratings success? Loyal staff and paying close attention to what the public expects are key ingredients, hears Lynne Greenwood, as she talks to the two acute trusts with gold-standard ratings
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Improvement notice for trust
Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals trust has been served with an improvement notice after it became the first trust to fail to comply with the hygiene code.
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Patient safety: making the most of an incident
Reporting of patient safety incidents in Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire primary care trusts has been relatively low. An incident learning group, formed in 2004, brings together clinicians and managers to review incident reports, formal complaints and patient advice and liaison services data. Discussion enables common themes and areas of ...
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Maternity unit's near miss
A trust has reversed its decision to close a maternity unit after threats from a local MP to raise the issue with the prime minister.
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Media watch
The Suncalled it the 'Doctors' check-up' and the Daily Expressan 'MOT to weed out dodgy doctors'.
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Michael white on politics
'The GMC last month took the historic step of abandoning the principle of self-regulation. It has yet to do so officially'
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Mike White on politics
'Would an NHS constitution require primary legislation? How would an arm's-length board be accountable? Tricky'
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Some trusts will stay in red, MPs warn
Some NHS trusts will never get back into financial balance, one of the government's turnaround advisers has admitted.
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Radiation overdose triggers probe
Immediate inspections of Scotland's five cancer radiotherapy centres will be held after a report into a radiation overdose found a catalogue of failings.
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More power to scrutiny
Stuart Shepherd looks at how scrutiny committees are tackling the growing problem of obesity in Britain
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Independent providers opened up to public scrutiny
The Healthcare Commission has launched a new web service that provides patients and the public with information about performance in independent acute hospitals, mental health units and independent sector treatment centres.Healthcare Commission chief executive Anna Walker, said: 'We want to make sure that patients have access to information about the ...
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MHRA issues safety warning about blood glucose meters
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has identified a safety problem with some blood glucose meters which, under certain conditions, may display the wrong units of measurement.This could result in an insulin overdose and hypoglycaemic coma.The MHRA has issued advice following a number of reports of adverse incidents where ...
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New assisted reproduction proposals published
The government has also published a white paper setting out its proposals for an overhaul of the law on assisted human reproduction and embryology research and the bodies that regulate this area and the use of human tissues.The paper says a Regulatory Authority for Tissue and Embryos, to be known ...
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Exclusive: PCT fitness bill hits £6.5m
The primary care trust fitness for purpose programme cost the Department of Health £6.5m, HSJhas learned.