Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said he is planning to announce a failure regime for GPs. This follows the new failure regime applied to NHS hospitals which allows commissioners to place hospitals in “special measures” in order to fix significant concerns regarding patient care or the way a hospital is run. Mr Hunt is also …
NHS Chiefs say that a two-tier A&E system should be created in England to improve services. NHS England carried out a review and suggested that 40 – 70 of the biggest units specialising in heart attacks, strokes and trauma should become major emergency centres. This would leave the remaining A&E departments to deal with less …
There was a recent appeal against an Employment Tribunal decision, which raised the question of the correct approach to determining what hours are to be paid at the minimum rate of the National Minimum Wage when averaged with other working hours. In this case the Claimant claimed she should be paid for the following: 1. …
The Local Government Association (LGA), alongside the Association of Directors of Adult Social Services and Society of Local Authority Chief Executives, have submitted a proposal calling for a national care loans scheme to help people meet the cost of care in their old age. The deferred payment scheme would work similarly to student loans with …
The House of Lords committee on the Mental Capacity Act (MCA) have been warned by CQC, social workers and senior practitioners that more needs to be done to aid interpretation and implementation of the MCA and DoLS. Speaking to the committee, the CQC revealed they had written to a number of local authorities raising concerns …
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A consultation by the Welsh Government is currently open titled ‘The Future of Regulation and Inspection of Care and Support in Wales’. The changes outlined in the White Paper will support the proposals in the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Bill. The Welsh Government say they intend build a responsive and sustainable system with citizens’ …
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From today onwards, Ofsted are toughening up their inspection regime for nurseries and pre-school facilities. Only those services rated as outstanding or good will be exempt from intervention. The changes will bring the inspection of nurseries and pre-schools in line with the inspection of primary and secondary education establishments. It removes the rating of ‘satisfactory’ …
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The Quality and Risk Profiles previously used by CQC have been replaced by a new ‘Intelligent Monitoring’ framework for NHS hospitals, introduced by the new Chief Inspector for Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards. The Quality and Risk Profile system, which was used by CQC to assess where risks might lie in an organisation, was intended …
In July, a new legal framework for inquests came into force in England and Wales. The overall duty of Coroners remains the same; to investigate unnatural deaths, deaths of which the cause is unknown and deaths in custody or other state control. That investigation must include an inquest in which the following matters are to …
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Currently, Monitor is only the Foundation Trust regulator. A new Monitor licensing regime came into effect for Foundation Trusts on 1 April 2013. This will be widened from 1 April 2014 to include the independent sector in relation to NHS funded services. Monitor describes itself as the sector regulator for health care. Its focus is …
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