CQC is set to increase its fees to providers to fully cover the cost of its ‘chargeable activities’. It’s consultation on regulatory fees, which took place between November 2015 and January 2016, set out a number of proposals to increases to fees. It has chosen the most aggressive way of recovering the cost of its …
The Howard League for Penal Reform has published a report which notes that children’s homes staff are quick to contact the police for matters that would usually be sorted out within a traditional family home settings. Data drawn upon in the report states that some forces are contacted by children’s homes thousands of times over …
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Trusts are being fined by their clinical commissioning groups for missing patient waiting targets. Some will see this as counterproductive as the very reason for missing such targets is often owing to a shortage of available funds to achieve their goals. The fines levied on hospital trusts total £600m, some 90% of which are expected …
In an exclusive interview with the HSJ, CQC’s Chief Executive, David Behan said CQC would fail to hit its target to inspect all acute hospital trusts under its new inspection regime before the end of 2015 and added that CQC was making the admission to be “open and transparent.” The target for acute hospital trusts …
The junior doctors’ contract debate continues to rumble on and the BMA has taken the unusual step of announcing that a strike will take place which will include A & E junior doctors. The BMA has announced two further strike dates. The first two day strike will start on 6 April and will cover all …
In an investigation lead by the Nursing Times it was found that trusts have had to exceed the pay caps for agency staff over the past few months owing to a shortage of nursing staff. The cap was introduced to attempt to limit the reliance on highly paid short term staff placements but this does …
Osborne’s planned cuts to disability benefits have been removed from the budget and in parliament yesterday he apologised for his ‘mistake’ in proposing to remove them. However, he refused to apologise when pressed for the rationale behind the cuts with the end goal being to reduce the Nation’s budget deficit. Iain Duncan Smith resigned from …
In figures reported by the Local Government Association the number of safeguarding enquiries doubled in the first six months of the Care Act. The Care Act introduced a statutory threshold which needs to be met to trigger safeguarding enquires. Prior to the introduction of the Care Act local authorities had complete discretion to decide when …
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CQC is still failing to meet its own performance targets for carrying out inspections. The report tabled for discussion at CQC’s forthcoming board meeting this week will show that it carried out 83.3% of the total number of inspections it forecast that it would in January. Further still in relation to GP’s inspections it only …
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Osborne’s Budget announced today failed to address the deficit in social care funding. This comes in the wake of calls for additional funding by local authorities and social care providers for funding to plug the gap. It is alleged that there will be a £4.3bn hole in funding for social care by 2020 and commentators …
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