All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 74
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NewsInspectors will listen to historical whistleblowers says CQC
Care Quality Commission inspection teams will be able to consider all whistleblowers’ contributions, no matter when their complaint dates from, the regulator has said.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhen an inspector calls: CQC hospital inspection programme under way
Mike Richards has started his new hospital inspections regime
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HSJ Local
Colchester Foundation Trust put in special measures
PERFORMANCE: An Essex hospital trust at the centre of a police investigation over allegations that staff were forced to change cancer waiting times data has been placed in special measures.
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CommentCompetition law can give the NHS the edge
Competition is not a distraction from better patient care
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NewsMonitor suggests changing primary care payment
The health sector regulator has suggested primary care payment mechanisms and commissioning responsibilities should be reorganised, to improve contracting of walk-in centres.
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Blogs
Do the CQC and Monitor understand 18 week waits?
The regualtors are applying the target in ways that deter hospitals from treating long waiting patients. Let’s hear the reasons why.
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News'Link' between mortality rates and doctor sanctions to be probed
The General Medical Council has told HSJ it will investigate an apparent statistical link between high mortality rates and the numbers of doctors receiving a warning or sanction.
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NewsHunt vows to tackle hospital problems
The health secretary has promised to get “to the bottom” of problems in NHS hospitals after a review showed more than a quarter of trusts were at risk of not offering safe, high-quality care.
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News
Second wave of trust inspections announced
The second wave of acute trusts to be inspected by the Care Quality Commission has been announced this morning.
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Comment‘Health tourism’ and the China syndrome
Properly handled, health tourism is a legitimate target that should not be attracting the outrage it has
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CommentData lessons from the education sector
Comparing new ideas in handling health and education data
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NewsWhistleblowers to be interviewed by CQC inspectors
Whistleblowers will be actively sought out by Care Quality Commission inspection teams to help them form regulatory judgements about healthcare providers, HSJ has discovered.
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LeaderPoliticians aren’t the only cause of the NHS’s uncertain future
Lack of collaboration across the service
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NewsCQC considers hidden cameras proposal
The health and social care watchdog in England is considering using hidden cameras to help carry out inspections.
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NewsCQC will 'campaign for more GPs and longer consultations'
The Care Quality Commission will “campaign” for longer consultations and greater increases in the GP workforce, its professional adviser on primary care has said.
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NewsHigh Court rules incompetent nurses cannot be struck off
Nurses and midwives cannot be struck off the register for incompetence under the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s current rules, it has emerged.