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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Much-needed taskforce inspires cautious optimism for change
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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CommentCQC must speed up its efforts to improve or lose further credibility
A year into the Care Quality Commission’s major turnaround programme, a difficult job just became even harder
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NewsCQC considered bypassing ministers to hire new chief
The Care Quality Commission considered recruiting a replacement for Sir Julian Hartley without government approval because of a four-month delay in getting it signed off, one of its non-executive directors told a board meeting.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Baroness Amos’ interim report sparks a sense of déjà vu
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsEx-CQC chief to lead charity
The recently departed boss of the Care Quality Commission has been named chief executive of an anti-poverty charity and housing trust.
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NewsMerging watchdog into CQC will ‘destroy’ independence
The influential MP who first proposed setting up a safety investigations watchdog for the NHS has warned health and social care secretary Wes Streeting that merging the body into the Care Quality Commission would be “fundamentally wrong”.
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NewsCEO vows trust will be ‘best in Western Europe’ despite CQC criticism
The interim chief executive of one of England’s largest mental health trusts is confident his organisation will return to being “the best in Western Europe”, despite the care regulator finding three of its main services “require improvement”.
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News‘Inappropriate behaviours’ persist despite ‘substantial progress’ on trust’s board
Cultural issues persist at a large teaching trust, despite “substantial progress” at board level, according to an external review it commissioned.
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NewsMike Richards to leave CQC
The chair of the Care Quality Commission is stepping down, just as the struggling regulator seeks a new chief executive.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Jeremy Hunt’s sobering realisation about bureaucracy and box ticking
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chair Jeremy Hunt
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NewsStreeting: ‘Failing’ CQC to absorb safety body with ‘enormous care’
The health secretary has said the government will approach integrating the NHS’s “successful” safety watchdog into the “failing” Care Quality Commission with “enormous care”.
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HSJ LocalCQC praises maternity units for recruiting more staff
The Care Quality Commission has upgraded all three of a trust’s maternity units to “good” ratings, saying its “maternity leaders had increased the number of midwives and specialists” so it could provide “a better standard of care”.
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NewsHigh risk service paused dozens of times at ‘inadequate’ unit
A service offering elective caesarean sections for women considered “high risk” and unable to labour was paused 32 times, according to inspectors who have rated the department “inadequate” for the second time in a row.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: The deeply concerning state of home birth services
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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NewsManagers ‘felt pressured and bullied’ in overcrowded ED
Managers in a major emergency department felt “pressured and bullied not to disclose difficulties” and were left to manage “extreme risk” including avoidable deaths, the Care Quality Commission has reported.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: Leeds failures highlight the tragic costs of ‘normal birth’ ideology
HSJ hosts the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe
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NewsCQC admits it falsely claimed not to know about trust maternity concerns
The Care Quality Commission has admitted it did know about concerns over the death of a baby at a trust being investigated for serious maternity failures after initially denying it had been informed.
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NewsTrust fined £200,000 over teenager’s death
An acute trust has been fined £200,000 after a teenager absconded from a hospital ward and killed herself.
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NewsTrust's divided exec and 'fundamental care' failures revealed
A hospital trust’s new CEO has declared that its board and executive team are divided and isolated, its care standards are failing, and it is sitting on a hidden budget gap.
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NewsChief nurse leaving troubled trust for ICB
A chief nurse is leaving a teaching hospital under investigation over maternity failings for an integrated care board role, HSJ has learned.