All Cynthia Bower articles – Page 6
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NewsFoundations defend private board meetings
Foundation trust directors have defended their decisions to meet in private, despite growing pressure on them to be more open.
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NewsCQC seeks feedback
The Care Quality Commission has launched a consultation on the registration standards it plans to enforce from April next year.
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NewsBaby P review reveals 'systemic failings' in NHS
Trusts have been urged to ensure they are meeting child protection standards in a report revealing “systemic failings” in the NHS’s treatment of Baby Peter.
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Blogs
NHS news blog: Care Quality Commission completes its management team
The Care Quality Commission has filled the remaining director posts on its senior management team. The new appointments are:David Johnstone, director of operationsKylie Kendrick, director of organisation development and human resourcesJohn Lappin, director of finance and corporate servicesDirector of operations David Johnstone has been executive director of adult and community ...
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Blogs
NHS news blog: Chief executives appointed at two SHAs
Chief executives have been appointed to West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber strategic health authorities.City of York council chief executive Bill McCarthy will lead NHS Yorkshire and Humber, while North Lancashire primary care trust chief executive Ian Cumming will head up NHS West Midlands.Mr McCarthy, a trained economist, replaces Margaret ...
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NewsChief executives appointed at two SHAs
Chief executives have been appointed to West Midlands and Yorkshire and Humber strategic health authorities.
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Care Quality Commission completes its management team
The Care Quality Commission has filled the remaining director posts on its senior management team.
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Ex-BBC boss joins national leadership council
Former BBC director general Greg Dyke has been named alongside an eclectic list of figures on the national leadership council for the NHS.
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CommentMichael White on the recent political populism
Watch out for political populism in troubled times. Most of us have been indulging in banker-bashing, but such enjoyably bad habits can be contagious and beneficial chiefly to extremists on the prowl. I spotted two crowd-pleasers that affect HSJ readers only this weekend.
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NewsFour foundation trusts on alert for hygiene failures
Four foundation trusts have had their governance ratings set to amber and been ordered to comply with hygiene standards after failing to meet the criteria for full registration with the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsCare Quality Commission defends Cynthia Bower
The Care Quality Commission has defended the appointment of its chief executive Cynthia Bower after the Conservatives called for an independent inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire foundation trust scandal.
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Sir Ian Kennedy sets record straight on Mid Staffordshire
Sir Ian Kennedy has written to the chair of the House of Commons health select committee to correct “misunderstandings” over the Healthcare Commission’s investigation into Mid Staffordshire foundation trust.
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NewsCare Quality Commission names trusts registered with conditions
Four foundation trusts and six primary care trusts are among the 21 organisations that have failed to assure the new regulator they are meeting infection control standards.
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Care Quality Commission officially launched
The NHS Confederation has welcomed the launch of the Care Quality Commission on the day of its official launch.
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Mid Staffs was 'off SHA radar'
Cynthia Bower has hit back at criticism that she could have done more to prevent problems at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust in her former role as chief executive of NHS West Midlands.
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NewsWho let standards fall so low at Mid Staffordshire?
A damning Healthcare Commission review of emergency care at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust last week found that money was put before patient care. Dave West investigates what went wrong
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LeaderNo excuses in this new era of regulation
With the Care Quality Commission going live next Wednesday, the Healthcare Commission has published a swathe of reports before its demise.
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NewsCynthia Bower sets out her vision for Care Quality Commission
The chief executive of the Care Quality Commission has made it clear that trusts have no excuse not to meet hygiene code standards by next week’s deadline.
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CommentLisa Rodrigues on the media and clinical leadership
I’ve had one of those weeks. I was on the interview panel to appoint the chief executive of the NHS Confederation and within 24 hours we were the top story on BBC News at 10.How does one convey to the public that bad things sometimes happen? Particularly when they are ...
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Cynthia Bower on CQC staffing issues highlighted in HSJ
I could have used this space to carp about your coverage of the Care Quality Commission last week, but I'd rather focus on the positive and look at what we have achieved in such a short time.