All Care Quality Commission (CQC) articles – Page 162
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NewsExperts attack plans for mandatory error reports
Patient safety experts have attacked plans to punish trusts that fail to report errors resulting in harm to patients.
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NewsWebsite puts PCTs under fresh public spotlight
The public can now monitor how their primary care trust and other local public services are performing against priority areas for improvement using one website.
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NewsAmbulance trust to put bonuses for top team on hold
The chief executive of an ambulance trust has pledged there will be no bonuses for its top team after it was given just two weeks to make substantial improvements to cleanliness and infection control by the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsHSJ exclusive: Barbara Young quits Care Quality Commission
Baroness Barbara Young has quit her position as Care Quality Commission chair, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCynthia Bower defends CQC in mortality furore
Care Quality Commission chief executive Cynthia Bower has defended NHS regulation after a string of events threatened to shatter public confidence in the safety of services.
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CommentAre death rates fair? You decide
Drip, drip, drip. No, not the sound of a hospital “deep clean” in action, but the horror-on-horror, day-by-day reporting in the run-up to and wake of the publication of Dr Foster’s annual Hospital Guide.
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LeaderSuccessful trusts must not let their stories be overshadowed
The past week has seen the NHS endure its worst reputational battering since the Mid Staffordshire scandal in March.
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NewsSafety outcry is ‘mandate’ for NHS quality
Public outcry about apparently unsafe hospitals gives the health service a mandate to put quality ahead of finance in planning and providing services, the NHS medical director has said.
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NewsAndy Burnham defends NHS targets
The health secretary has defended the government’s targets for the NHS in the wake of failings at several hospitals.
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NewsMike O'Brien defends Care Quality Commission
The government has defended the Care Quality Commission after a report found a raft of underperforming hospitals and high death rates.
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NewsCQC 'sees no need to intervene'
The Care Quality Commission has said it sees no need to intervene in more hospitals despite new research suggesting 12 acute trusts are significantly underperforming.
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NewsBasildon responds to CQC report
The Essex foundation trust at the centre of the latest round of criticism over care failings says it has already begun to tackle the problems uncovered by Care Quality Commission inspectors.
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NewsReport calls for urgent action at Essex trust
A damning report on the state of care at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has prompted the Care Quality Commission to seek urgent remedial action.
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NewsPatient safety reporting still fails to reach boards in 1 in 10 acute trusts
One in 10 hospital trusts have confessed to not regularly reporting patient safety and outcomes at board level, more than a year after Lord Darzi’s next stage review said care quality should be “at the heart of the NHS”.
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LeaderNHS boards are still not getting the message
The latest Dr Foster Intelligence analysis of trusts’ mortality rates contains both good and baffling news.
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NewsStroke care gets better since health check
Latest figures from the Department of Health indicate hospital trusts have improved stroke care since the Care Quality Commission undertook the 2008-09 annual health check.
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NewsSir Ian Kennedy champions ‘fearless’ NHS regulator
Former Healthcare Commission chair Sir Ian Kennedy has accused MPs of “shooting the messenger” in a Commons health committee report on patient safety.
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LeaderHospitals are blocking stroke care progress, and patients are bearing the cost
HSJ’s analysis of trusts’ performance on stroke care shows there is a long, long way to go.
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NewsTrusts fail to keep up pace on stroke targets
Fewer than 40 per cent of acute and specialist trusts are achieving the required standards of stroke care.
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NewsCQC will face ‘tricky decisions’ on failing services
The Care Quality Commission has some “tricky decisions” ahead on using its powers to shut down failing services, its chair has admitted.