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Standing up for your business – Healthcare Business July 2019

Articles & Publications / By Jenny Wilde

We have many providers of health and social care services contact us to describe in detail the injustices they have suffered at the hands of a regulator, a commissioner or a professional regulatory body. These stories often relate to inefficiencies within those respective organisations that have led to incorrect conclusions or unreasonable or disproportionate regulatory …

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Care Talk – June 2019 – How providers and their staff can influence CQC to be more consistent

Articles & Publications / By Caroline Barker

CQC presented its draft Business Plan for 2019/2020 at its April Board meeting. At the core of the plan are four key items, described as CQC’s purpose: encourage improvement, innovation and sustainability in care; deliver an intelligence driven approach to regulation; promote a single shared view of quality; improve their efficiencies and effectiveness. One of …

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The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 has been given Royal Assent – what will happen when the new Liberty Protection Safeguards come into force?

Articles & Publications / By Anna Lemmer

On 16 May 2019, the Mental Capacity (Amendment) Act 2019 (“the Act”) was given Royal Assent and it is hoped that it will come into force in Spring 2020. The Act amends the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in relation to procedures in which a person may be deprived of their liberty where the person lacks …

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Care Talk – May 2019 – Complaints in the spotlight

Articles & Publications / By Samantha Burges

In February this year CQC launched its ‘Declare Your Care’ campaign, encouraging people to share their experiences of care with CQC to support it with its regulatory work. The associated press release included data from a consumer research study commenting on people’s regrets about not raising concerns about health and social care services when they …

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Drink and Drug News – May 2019 – CQC Roll out New Factual Accuracy Process – the main changes for providers

Articles & Publications / By Laura P. Shelton

My colleagues have written in previous issues of DDN about the importance of submitting comprehensive Factual Accuracy Comments (FACs) to your CQC inspection report if you consider that the report and/or rating is not a true reflection of your service. Most recently, one of my colleagues set out some of the changes proposed by the …

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Caring Times – April 2019 – Negotiating with regulators and commissioners in the healthcare sector

Articles & Publications / By Nythan Smith

The day has dawned and passed on what was supposed to be the day the UK exited the European Union. I can’t help but wonder what can be learned from the exercise and applied to the healthcare sector and its relationships with its regulators. Irrespective of one’s political leanings, much can be learned from the exit exercise. In our practice of acting for …

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Healthcare Business – April 2019 – Service user relationships and CQC: Is the intrusive regulator acting beyond its remit again?

Articles & Publications / By Anna Lemmer

In February 2019, CQC issued guidance on ‘relationships and sexuality in adult care services’ and how providers should consider service users’ relationship and sexuality needs. CQC hopes that the guidance will provide clarity and direction to providers to help support service users to manage their sexuality needs and to assist providers to safeguard vulnerable service …

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HSJ – February 2019 – Not Registering the Right Support to Transform Care

Articles & Publications / By Laura P. Shelton

As the clock ticks down towards the end of the Transforming Care Programme in March 2019, there is widespread concern the Programme has been unsuccessful in realising the ambitions set out in the Building the Right Support strategy. These ambitions, rooted in the wake of Winterbourne View and similar scandals, were to develop more community …

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HSJ – January 2019 – The Duty of Candour; a timely reminder to providers

Articles & Publications / By Ridouts Solicitors

CQC has for the first time used its criminal enforcement powers against a health and social care provider for a failure to comply with the Duty of Candour under Regulation 20 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 (“Regulation 20”). CQC fined Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (the “Bradford …

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Healthcare Business – February 2019 – CQC intends to ring in changes to how Providers can challenge its inspection reports

Articles & Publications / By Nythan Smith

CQC has commented often that it wishes to improve the process of inspection specifically in relation to the speed at which reports are published following inspection. CQC intends to bring in new guidance which will apply to all providers of health and social care around the process of checking reports for their factual accuracy. To …

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