The CQC has been forced to apologise to a number of GPs for providing incorrect patient safety risk assessment results. This follows a BBC investigation into the calculations for the risk based banding system applied to individual GP practices. The banding system is used as part of CQC’s pre-inspection information gathering process for GP practices. …
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This year there has been an increased focus on mental health following the government’s mental health action plan ‘Closing the Gap’. Waiting time targets have been introduced with the aim of improving treatment and standards for people with mental health problems. Chief Executive of South London and Maudsley NHS foundation trust, Matthew Patrick who directs the …
According to a recent national Accident and Emergency patient survey 8 out of 10 respondents rated their overall experience as good (giving it 7 or more out of 10). Only 3% of patients said the doctor or nurse who treated them did not listen to what they had to say. A&E is one of the …
CQC is currently consulting on plans for inspecting primary care dental services and rating ambulance and independent healthcare services. Its plans are set out in three consultation documents for: NHS and independent ambulances Primary care dental services Independent acute healthcare CQC Chief Executive David Behan said: “We are setting out the changes we are proposing …
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. …
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