Month: July 2012

On 28 June 2012 CQC published information on its website for the first time covering its performance against the targets it has set in its business plan in relation to registration, monitoring compliance and the types of enforcement action it has been taking over April and May 2012. Registration New Registration Applications CQC’s aim is …

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On 16 July 2012, the Department of Health published its plans for consultation and implementation of sector regulation in relation to NHS funded services to be exercised by Monitor. The paper, “Sector regulation: update on plans for consultation and implementation” provides a useful summary of what the health and care system will look like from …

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In July 2012, Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust was fined £150,000 and ordered to pay costs of £326,345 for placing a male patient suffering from bipolar disorder in a care home where, tragically, he stabbed to death a female care worker. The sentence followed an eight week jury trial at Luton Crown Court that resulted in …

Ridouts LLP The importance of risk assessing patients before admission to care homes: an NHS Trust and care home owner found guilty of health and safety breaches Read More »

Under the Freedom of Information Act, we have obtained internal CQC guidance for its staff on “Issuing Warning Notices and handling representations against publication of Warning Notices”. The Guidance states that once a warning notice is served it cannot be withdrawn. CQC is applying this policy position to situations where warning notices are unjustified and …

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