Yesterday, two of the new fundamental standards of care came into force for NHS Trusts, Foundation Trusts and some special health authorities. The two new standards introduce a duty of candour and the fit and proper persons requirement for directors. During CQC inspections both standards will be inspected. Inspectors will assess compliance with the duty …
A care home has been fined £96,000 and ordered to pay £100,000 in costs following the death of a resident who fell from the window of her first floor bedroom as a result of defective window restrictors. Windows at the care home had been designed at low levels to allow residents to see out when …
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Following CQC’s Public Board Meeting yesterday, it has been agreed in principle to publish information for providers, as well as for people who use services and their loved ones, about the use of covert or overt surveillance to monitor care. CQC’s Board members have approved for the information to be included in the final documents …
Within the next three months CQC is planning to inspect the 10% of practices it considers ‘most worrying’. The CQC is set to release ratings from over 300 practices over the next two weeks from the first wave of its revamped inspection scheme and up to a thousand inspections are scheduled for inspection before 2015. …
Professor Steve Field, the Chief Inspector of General Practice at the CQC has indicated that CQC inspectors are finding some smaller GP practices are faring worse in CQC inspections. He said CQC’s inspectors had found “some extraordinary brilliant small practices” stating that many of those that did better in inspections shared data and services with …
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A report released today by the National Audit Office (NAO) has criticised the implementation of the Better Care Fund with the planning process being branded as a “shambles.” The Better Care Fund, announced by the government in June 2013, is a £3.8bn pooled fund intended to ensure a transformation in integrated health and social care. …
The government will address concerns raised by the Relatives and Residents Association with regard to the ‘dilution’ of the new Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (the 2014 Regulations) in response to a House of Lords debate. Concerns were raised that the new ‘fundamental standards’, due to come into force in …
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A report by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges said that doctors have an ethical duty to prevent waste in the NHS and its authors point to potential savings of nearly £2bn. Examples include better use of medication, tests, hospital beds and operating theatres. The British Medical Association said doctors were ideally placed to identify …
Figures show that the number of care workers or carers charged with offences under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 reached an all-time high in 2013-14 and the number of prosecutions of care staff and family carers for abuse or neglect have more than doubled. In 2013-14, 349 charges were made and reached a first magistrates’ …
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So far, under CQC’s new regime of inspection for adult social care services, of the 30 reports published, 21 have been judged as Good, six as Requires Improvement and three as Inadequate. CQC’s new approach was rolled out formally earlier this month and it includes rating care homes and other adult social care services for …
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