The Department of Health has released a diabetic retinopathy screening statement on its website.
It says that by December 2007, 85.7 per cent of people diagnosed with diabetes were offered screening for diabetic retinopathy that met national clinical standards of quality and safety.
To read the statement, visit www.dh.gov.uk
An NHS children’s mental health unit has been closed down by the Care Quality Commission after being rated “inadequate” earlier this week.
A new government review will aim to stop NHS catering staff feeling “boxed in” and help to “unclip [their] wings”, its chair has told HSJ .
A mental health hospital has been placed into special measures by the Care Quality Commission after inspectors found more than 500 instances of restraint and dozens of unexplained serious incidents.
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