Month: July 2017

Chief Inspector of hospitals in England says NHS ‘does not need more money to improve’

Professor Sir Mike Richards, the outgoing chief inspector of hospitals in England, has said the NHS does not necessarily need more money to improve care. He said there are more cost-effective ways of running the NHS, such as ending the use of what he called “very expensive” agency nurses. Sir Mike said there was “no …

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Mencap warns vulnerable people with learning disabilities could lose overnight supervision

In response to the HMRC’s ruling that carers sleeping overnight to provide safety and reassurance should be paid the national minimum wage for all hours, Mencap has said this could leave vulnerable people with learning disabilities without overnight supervision. Mencap says the total bill for back pay could be £400m, as it will be due …

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Biggest shake up to ambulance response time in 40 years

NHS England has announced that ambulances will now be expected to reach severely ill patients in an average time of seven minutes. 999 calls will now be put into four different categories according to their severity. These four categories will be people with life- threatening illnesses or injuries, emergency calls, urgent calls and less urgent …

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Ridout Report – Are adult social care services in a state, as CQC suggests?

CQC have recently completed the inspections of some 24,000 different locations providing adult social care.  It published its State of Adult Social Care report covering 2014 to 2017 and clearly feels empowered and emboldened to draw conclusions from the inspections it has conducted.  Nursing Homes are singled out for particular mention in the report with …

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CQC finish its first round of inspections into health and social care services

Yesterday CQC marked the completion of its first round of inspections into health and social care services by releasing a national report on the state of adult social care services between 2014 to 2017. It inspected 24,000 care services and, while noting that the majority of services are of a high quality and many are …

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CQC asked by Secretary of State for Health to conduct 12 local system reviews of health and social care

The Secretary of State for Health and for Communities and Local Government has asked CQC to undertake a programme of local system of health and social care in 12 local authority areas. The reviews will include a review of commissioning across the interface of health and social care and an assessment of the governance in …

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CQC want all care home providers to re-examine their fire safety checks

Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, CQC’s chief executive David Behan has written to care homes, hospitals and independent hospitals to ask that they review their fire safety checks and ensure they are up to date. CQC are aware of commonplace fire safety issues within care homes, such as blocked fire exits, fire doors wedged open, …

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