According to a Times investigation, vulnerable children with mental health problems are waiting up to three and a half years for assessments and almost two years for treatment. Freedom of Information requests submitted by The Times newspaper found that the longest wait from first referral to being formally assessed since 2012 was at the Sussex …
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CQC’s board members have expressed concerns over CQC’s performance in responding to safeguarding information in the latest CQC board meeting. Although CQC reports a marginal improvement on response times to safeguarding alerts and concerns for the year to date, figures show that CQC’s hospital directorate followed up on 32% of safeguarding alerts within one day …
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The general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), Brian Lightman, has highlighted that the continuous changes being made to schools by the government has made it impossible for people to tell how well England’s schools are performing. Speaking at the ASCL annual conference in London he said “Hard though it is …
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According to recent research, mental health trusts in England have seen their budgets fall by more than 8% in real terms over the course of this parliament. At the same time, referrals to community mental health teams, which help people avoid being admitted to hospital, have risen nearly 20%. Care minister Norman Lamb said budgets …
CQC have announced which NHS acute and mental health providers will be inspected in August 2015. CQC will now give details of hospitals they will be inspecting every month in order to give providers 20 weeks’ notice of an inspection. The inspections will assess whether the service overall is: safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s …
Ofsted has been told it must reinspect hundreds of local authorities in England after a Commons Select Committee report criticised Ofsted’s failure to detect evidence of widespread child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham. The communities and local government (CLG) select committee said it was clear that CSE will have been missed in other parts of …
A Commons Health Committee report has found that two-thirds of people say they want to die at home but more than half end up dying in hospital. The report said there was ‘unacceptable variation’ in the care received by people in England. End-of-life care is defined as people expected to die within 12 months, with …
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CQC’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Prof Sir Mike Richards, has reflected on complaints within the health and adult social care sector following the launch of a new campaign by Which? to make complaints count in public services. Which? report that its findings indicate that many people do not complain when they experience problems, and those …
A series of pilots aiming to provide more joined-up care have been launched which aim to bring together hospitals, GPs, community services and care homes. NHS England this week announced the 29 partnerships involved as part of the drive to integrate care. The pilot is intended to play a key part in putting the NHS …
CQC and the Department of Health have this week published further information on what they expect from health and social care providers ahead of the introduction of the new Care Certificate. From the 1 April 2015 all new healthcare assistants and social care support workers will be required to get a Care Certificate in their …
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