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.
A troubled teaching trust in south London has hired a permanent replacement for its acting medical director, while it tries to overhaul its dysfunctional heart surgery unit.
The chief executive of an acute trust has resigned amid an ongoing police investigation into eight deaths in its neonatal unit.
The leader of the Mid Staffordshire public inquiry has been appointed chair of Healthwatch England.
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