All Regulation/inspection articles – Page 22
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HSJ InteractiveThe NHS long-term plan must be owned locally
Nick Ville asks whether the long-term plan will support and enable local system leaders in addressing the systemic problems facing the NHS
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Five questions about ICS development
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care, and commissioning. This week by commissioning correspondent, Sharon Brennan.
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HSJ LocalFormer nurse made permanent CEO of special measures trust
An acute trust in special measures has made its interim chief executive a permanent appointment.
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NewsExclusive: Patients' body parts were stored dangerously for six months
Human body parts from NHS patients have been stored in unrefrigerated units for more than six months resulting in a smell of “decaying flesh” at a scandal hit waste management company, according to Environment Agency documents seen by HSJ.
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NewsPriory Group faces unlimited fine after NHS patient's death
A private hospital group faces a fine of more than £2m after indicating a guilty plea to health and safety charges following the death of a 14-year-old NHS-funded patient.
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NewsTrust leaps from 'inadequate' to 'good' following leadership change
There is no “silver bullet” to improve failing trusts, the chief executive of the latest NHS trust to jump from an “inadequate” to “good” Care Quality Commission rating has said.
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NewsProfessional registration for NHS managers signalled by long-term plan
Formal regulation of senior NHS managers could be introduced to improve their standing and help fill the most difficult jobs, according to the NHS long-term plan.
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New regime revealed for trusts with biggest financial holes
The 30 worst financially performing NHS trusts will be subject to a new regulatory regime as part of plans to bring the provider sector into the black by 2020-21.
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NewsTroubled trust moves major service in bid to improve flow
A special measures trust is shifting nearly all its elective orthopaedic work out of its main hospital as part of a raft of initiatives aimed at getting out of special measures.
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NewsFirm at centre of stockpiling scandal ceases operations
The company which stockpiled dozens of NHS trusts’ clinical waste, including human body parts, has ceased operations and made its staff redundant.
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NewsRevealed: The NHS contingency plans for clinical waste disposal
NHS Improvement has hired consultants from Mott Macdonald to help NHS trusts and primary care staff whose facilities have lost their clinical waste disposal provider, HSJ has learned.
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HSJ LocalSecond council supports referral to Hancock over £150m reconfiguration
Health chiefs in Dorset have “confidence” in their plans to reconfigure acute services in the county despite two local authorities asking for a review by health secretary Matt Hancock, they have said.
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NewsChief coroner warns over watered down medical examiner role
England’s chief coroner has raised concerns over the independence of proposed new medical examiners in the NHS and warned the system will not tackle gaps exploited by the serial killer GP Harold Shipman.
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NewsWorkload and lack of expertise hitting safety, says CQC
Workload pressures, a confusing national structure, and lack of training are preventing patient safety from being prioritised in the NHS, the chief inspector of hospitals has warned.
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NewsLeaked report: Killing of two hospital patients was ‘preventable’
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.
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NewsFive NHS Improvement directors step down
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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NewsExclusive: Regulator may get powers to force FTs to merge
National officials are set to seek strengthened legal powers to force NHS providers to merge, HSJ has learned.
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NewsCQC: Leadership must improve at ‘dysfunctional’ heart unit
Leadership and management problems from service to trust level contributed to failures at a London teaching trust’s heart surgery unit, the Care Quality Commission said today.
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NewsTrusts' costs triple amid clinical waste crisis
Nearly 20 NHS trusts are paying three times as much for clinical waste services after their contracts were moved from the company at the centre of the stockpiling row, HSJ can reveal.
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News'Inadequate' trust faces calls to be put into failure regime
Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust is facing calls to be put into the NHS failure regime after being kept in special measures and rated “inadequate” again following a Care Quality Commission inspection.