The Healthcare Commission has said more trusts are declaring non-compliance with its hygiene code than did last year.
Trusts have said they are struggling with patient records, mandatory training and decontamination of equipment. There is also a slight decline in the number of trusts saying they are meeting standards around treating patients with privacy and dignity.
The commission has said it will carry out a thorough check of the accuracy of trusts' declarations.
The chief executive of the UK’s medicine regulator is to leave his post in September 2019, six months after the UK is due to leave the European Union.
A whistleblower’s four year legal challenge cost the NHS nearly £700,000, it has emerged.
A mental health trust has been taken to court after being accused of breaching a trademark over its name for a specialist service.
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