Hospitals have been offered cash incentives to put patients on the Liverpool Care Pathway in order to meet targets. They are paid millions to hit targets for the number of patients who die on the Liverpool Care Pathway. Hospital consultant Professor Patrick Pullicino warned financial incentives for hospitals to put patients on the Liverpool Care …
The government’s pledge to try to make England a world leader in elderly care is at risk of becoming “superficial” words, council chiefs warn. According to council chiefs, over the past two years social care services have been cut by about 15%. The Local Government Association and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (ADASS) …
The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has ordered a review of NHS plans to close three children’s heart surgery units at Leeds General Infirmary, Glenfield Hospital in Leicester and the Royal Brompton in west London. The Independent Reconfiguration Panel (IRP) is to consider in detail how the decisions were reached and is to report its findings …
NHS hearing services are being scaled back in England an investigation by campaigners suggests. As many as 4 in 10 audiology units have reported cuts in services. The group, Action on Hearing Loss, obtained data from 128 hospitals and found that more than 40% of them had seen cuts in the past 18 months. The …
From December 2012 regular checks on doctors’ skills will take place. This is a significant shake-up in medical regulation for more than 150 years. 220,000 UK doctors will have annual appraisals, with a decision taken every five years on whether they are fit to practice. However, it will be April 2016 before the vast majority …
Draft regulations titled ‘Protection of Freedoms Act (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) Order 2012’ have been published which transfer the functions of the Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) and the functions of the Secretary of State in England and Wales under various Acts to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). Currently the ISA is …
In the latest Conservative party conference the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said that all care managers should be held accountable for the standard of care provided in their establishments, adding that anyone responsible for poor standards of care cannot expect to keep their jobs. He has called for a review of the system suggesting …
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In April, I wrote a rather unkind retrospective of Cynthia Bowers period as Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission. It was bombastic but not undeserved. It is now time to look to the future. David Behan arrives at the CQC at a time of intense crisis and he faces a daunting challenge. The importance …
The way in which CQC inspectors are meant to conduct inspections (from preparing the visit down to publication of the report and reviewing action plans from providers) is set out in an internal CQC guide called the “Inspector’s Handbook Compliance Inspections” which went operational in July 2012. We have obtained a copy under a Freedom …
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