The Healthcare Commission has today launched a year-long programme of unannounced spot checks to 120 NHS trusts to check compliance with the government's Hygiene Code.
The code, launched last October, outlines 11 compulsory duties to prevent and manage healthcare-associated infections such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile. Trusts found lacking could be put under special measures by the health secretary if they fail to take adequate corrective action.
An “integrated care provider” of a range of services including core general practice is due to be established in a major new housing development.
The Care Quality Commission has rated an independent mental health hospital as “inadequate”, just 15 months after it was rated as “good”, and following abuse allegations being raised.
Hierarchies within the NHS workforce are a “real bar” to patient safety, the chief inspector of hospitals has warned.
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