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NewsTrust drops from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’
A hospital trust’s leadership has been rated “requires improvement” by the Care Quality Commission and accused of ”excessive scrutiny” of staff.
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NewsProvider fined £600k over death
A provider has been fined more than £600,000 over the death of a 33-year-old mental health patient who sought a private admission after being turned down by the NHS.
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NewsCEO to take on third trust
A CEO who leads two South Yorkshire trusts has been appointed to run a third on an interim basis.
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NewsMaternity ‘sidelined by boards and poorly understood by medical directors’
Maternity services, despite numerous scathing reviews, are still sidelined by trust boards and often poorly understood by medical directors, who view them as being outside the mainstream and delivered by “slightly odd folk”, a leading expert has told HSJ.
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NewsCQC names new CEO
A senior civil servant who has run the food safety regulator will be the new CEO of the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsCQC chief faces ‘inherent conflict’
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission is set to become responsible for deciding whether to remove “safe space” protection from whistleblowers’ information, which a former health minister has called an “inherent conflict”.
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News16 trusts ‘streamlined’ towards advanced FT status
Sixteen trusts are entering a “streamlined” application process to become advanced foundation trusts, NHS England has announced.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: ‘The wrong voices’
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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NewsGovernment picks CQC chair without competition
The government has revealed its preferred candidate to be the next chair of the Care Quality Commission, as a cross-bench peer who has overseen major national healthcare reviews.
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NewsFamilies sue over care failures
More than a dozen families have taken legal action against the NHS over care failings in paediatric audiology services, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsNational quality strategy facing ‘ministerial pushback’
Serious concerns have been raised that the delayed NHS “quality strategy” does not “prioritise patient safety”, HSJ has discovered.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Fears mount over corridor care, HSSIB reform and ‘never events’
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsPublic inquiry into maternity being considered by DHSC
Current inquiries into care failures lack teeth, and such a gap could be filled by a public inquiry, the government’s new national maternity adviser has revealed.
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NewsTrust fined £320k over hospital infection death
The Care Quality Commission has imposed a £324,143 fine on a trust where a chemotherapy patient contracted a serious infection from bacteria in a ward’s en-suite bathroom and later died.
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NewsTrust forced to wait 18 months for CQC report
A Care Quality Commission report into an ambulance trust is still yet to be published more than 18 months after the inspectors visited, in what is thought to be the longest delay of its kind.
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LeaderStuck in the politician’s waiting room
Once again, the NHS is waiting. Waiting to see if there will be a new prime minister, waiting to see if they will appoint a new health secretary, waiting to see who that health secretary will appoint as Sir Jim Mackey’s successor. Waiting to see if the new leadership will ...
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NewsExclusive: CQC’s ‘ridiculous’ inspections without clinical input
The Care Quality Commission has been accused of undertaking “ridiculous” inspections without clinical input which have put patients at risk, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsMidwives ‘awake for 24hrs’ at under-fire maternity unit
A maternity service has been given a “good” rating by the Care Quality Commission, despite midwives reporting being asked to work back-to-back shifts with no sleep breaks.
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NewsCQC gets caretaker chair after ‘regrettable’ delay
An interim chair has been appointed to the Care Quality Commission, which has bemoaned a “regrettable” delay in recruiting a permanent successor.
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NewsCQC slashes value of failed IT project
The Care Quality Commission has written off millions of pounds from the value of the failed IT system that was central to recent problems with its inspection regime.