Andrea Sutcliffe, the Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, has today outlined her priorities for CQC’s new system for monitoring, inspecting and regulating adult social care services, with a clear focus on public involvement and improvement. The new system will be officially launched next Autumn. Services will be given an Ofsted-style rating of outstanding, good, …
Tomorrow CQC are due to announce a package of intended changes to the way they will regulate registered services. The new Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, Andrea Sutcliffe, has announced her plans for ‘experts by experience’ to play a central role in her radical overhaul of care sector regulation. Some of the main changes …
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A worryingly high number of A&E doctors are suffering from excessive pressure and burnout due to “intolerable” work pressures, such as being on-call regularly and the complexity of work they handle, potentially putting patients at risk, emergency unit specialists have warned. The future of staffing of emergency departments is in question, as a result of …
In the last few weeks, the Serious Case Review detailing the tragic death of Daniel Pelka was published which highlights that, whilst the various agencies involved with Daniel could not have predicted his death, there were too many missed opportunities for them to take action. This is the theme of many Serious Case Reviews of …
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This month’s Ridout Report summarises the ways in which CQC says it intends to operate moving forward, particularly in the field of adult social care. This follows the publication by CQC on 17 October 2013 of the responses to their recent consultation (‘A new start’) and the publication two days before this of ‘A fresh …
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