All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 109
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NewsGovernment selects CQC chair
The government has selected a permanent chair for the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsAudit Commission extends payment by results checks
The Audit Commission has announced an extension of its payment by results data assurance checks.
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NewsTougher tack on increasing foundation trusts
The government will take a tough approach to moving to an all foundation trust system, and seek to put providers “outside state control”.
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NewsCQC chief welcomes 'formalisation' of relationship with Monitor
The Care Quality Commission is to become a “quality inspectorate” focusing solely on the safety and quality of providers.
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NewsMonitor and CQC to run 'joint licence' from April 2012
Monitor will become an economic regulator of all health and social care providers from April 2012, Andrew Lansley’s white paper confirms.
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NewsWhite paper: DH unit will force foundation trust move
All NHS provider trusts will be regulated by Monitor from April 2013, the white paper says.
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NewsHealthWatch to be part of the CQC
The new body to “strengthen the collective voice of patients” in the NHS will be part of the Care Quality Commission, the white paper announced.
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NewsHospital infection controls criticised
A hospital has been told to improve its infection control standards by health inspectors who made 16 requirements for change.
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NewsUNISON announces HCAs conference
UNISON has announced it will be holding its healthcare assistants conference in September. It will look at how HCAs should be regulated in the future.
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NewsJust one in six CQC staff think regulator is well managed
Only 16 per cent of the Care Quality Commission’s employees think it is well managed, internal staff survey results leaked to HSJ reveal.
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NewsBroadmoor trust makes ‘significant progress’
A mental health trust has made “significant improvements” since a Care Quality Commission report last year which criticised it for delays in investigating incidents.
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NewsGovernment tells CQC to drop annual health check reviews
The government has told the Care Quality Commission to scrap its annual review of health service organisations immediately, HSJ has learned.
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NewsAccountability shake-up planned for public services
David Cameron will today promise to “turn government on its head” and make every Whitehall department publicly accountable against published milestones for what they want to achieve.
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NewsDH policies score poorly in national audit scrutiny
A number of Department of Health policies may have been implemented without adequate assessment of their need or likely impact, the government’s spending watchdog has found.
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NewsHas Lansley called time on falling NHS waiting lists?
Some see the abolition of central performance management of the 18 weeks referral to treatment target as a big mistake, others think it heralds a more flexible system. Alison Moore looks at the early outlook for a controversial change of policy
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NewsTougher version of CQC annual health check scrapped
A tougher version of the annual health check that would have branded struggling trusts “poor” has been scrapped in light of the change of government and revised operating framework.
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NewsCQC sends inspectors into United Lincolnshire
The Care Quality Commission has sent inspectors into an acute trust after the former chief executive passed on staff concerns about care quality.
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NewsCQC review uncovers nursing failures and poor staff supervision
Nursing failures and poor staff supervision were discovered at a mental health unit after an investigation into the deaths of six elderly patients, the Care Quality Commission has said.
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NewsNHS arm’s length bodies in rush to cut spending
Arm’s length bodies, such as the NHS Information Centre, are reducing costs as uncertainty hangs over their future.
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News‘In intervention’ PCT is to investigate failings
NHS Portsmouth City has been placed “in intervention” by its strategic health authority.