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.
Jeremy Hunt’s statement in Parliament about failures in the national breast screening programme was based on incorrect information from Public Health England, according to an independent review published today.
An independent investigation into the attack and killing of two people on a hospital ward by another patient has concluded the attack was “probably preventable”, a leak of its report reveals.
NHS Improvement has announced that five of its directors are stepping down, as the organisation combines its management with NHS England.
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