All Care Quality Commission (CQC) articles – Page 127
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NewsCQC unveils community services inspection regime
The Care Quality Commission has outlined its new approach for inspecting community health services.
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NewsCQC chief executive backs wider duty of candour
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.
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Chief departs as Barking placed in special measures
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.
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CommentCameras can be the secret weapon to stop care scandals
We need a debate about how to protect vulnerable people
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CommentThe duty of candour is a giant leap in patients' rights
Jeremy Hunt has an important decision to make
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LeaderThe ‘year of Francis’ ends in confusion, conflict and hope
The NHS can’t waste a ‘good crisis’
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HSJ Local
CQC lifts warning notice against Basildon and Thurrock
PERFORMANCE: The Care Quality Commission has lifted a statutory warning notice it placed against Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust with immediate effect.
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NewsCQC launches dementia services review
The Care Quality Commission is to undertake unannounced inspections of 150 care homes and hospitals to review the care of people with dementia in England.
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NewsGPs replaced following CQC inspections
More details emerged of how the lead GPs of poorly performing practices have been replaced following Care Quality Commission inspections.
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CommentMichael White: A year of 'everything for the best'
You needn’t be Dr Pangloss to hope for a better year in 2014
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CommentWhat schools teach trusts about 'special measures'
The new CQC regime is a chance for hospitals to recover
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NewsMental health inspection blueprint unveiled
The chief inspector of hospitals has acknowledged plans to inspect mental health services are behind the acute sector but has said he is determined to achieve “parity of inspection”.
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NewsCQC closes poorly performing GP practices
The chief inspector of general practice has revealed the Care Quality Commission has already initiated the close of a number of poor practices.
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NewsMedical director 'falls on sword' after inspection
At least one medical director has already “fallen on their sword” following a visit from one of the Care Quality Commission’s new inspection teams, the chief inspector of hospitals has said.
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HSJ Local
Monitor could intervene at Medway
Monitor told Medway Foundation Trust to take urgent action to improve or risk changes being imposed on its leadership.
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NewsAnalysis: Keogh review trusts take positives from scrutiny
A majority of the trusts placed into special measures following Keogh review inspections have expressed concern about the costs of improving care, even if most have backed the additional scrutiny they have received, according to HSJ analysis.
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NewsManagers to face 'direct consequences' for failure
Senior NHS managers including chief executives could have their contracts linked to their organisation’s performance in the new Care Quality Commission ratings.
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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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News'No improvement' in patient safety
Hospitals have made “no improvement” in monitoring the quality of patient care in light of the Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust scandal and “no improvement” in keeping patients safe or treating them with dignity, the Care Quality Commission 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