All Health Service Journal articles in 10 January 2014 – Page 5

  • David Behan
    News

    CQC chief executive backs wider duty of candour

    2013-12-19T10:41:00Z

    The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has thrown his weight behind a wider definition of the government’s planned statutory duty of candour.

  • hakin_barbara
    News

    Warning over A&E ambulance queues

    2013-12-19T10:05:00Z

    The NHS has a “significant problem” with ambulances queuing at accident and emergency departments waiting to drop off patients, a senior official has said.

  • News

    Chief departs as Barking placed in special measures

    2013-12-18T14:00:00Z

    Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust has been placed in special measures after the latest Care Quality Commission inspection found evidence of “unsafe care” in its accident and emergency departments.

  • Elderly man in wheelchair with smiling healthcare worker
    News

    Hospital chief to chair nurse staffing group

    2013-12-18T10:30:00Z

    Nursing academics who led research which found patients were at risk if nurse to patient ratios fell below one to eight have been commissioned to conduct a government backed review of the evidence on nurse staffing, HSJ has learned.