The Joint Committee on Human Rights is “deeply concerned” about the delay in the implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards (LPS) which are due to replace the existing Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards. LPS was originally planned to be rolled out in April 2022. However, on 5 April 2023, the Department of Health and Social Care …
Back in March 2023, I wrote about the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (“the NMC”) proposal to shut down Canterbury Christ Church University’s (“University”) midwifery programme at hospital trusts across the local area following concerning feedback received from existing students who reported a lack of supervision and being left alone to look after patients for entire …
Update: NMC Shuts Down Midwifery Programme Over Safety Concerns Read More »
A Roundup of the Professional Standards Authority’s Performance Reviews for 2021/2022 It’s that time of the year again. The time when the Professional Standards Authority (“PSA”) completes its annual review of all ten statutory healthcare regulators for the preceding year and publicly critiques their performance. Essentially, highlighting the concerns which registrants and their legal representatives …
Professional Discipline: ‘The Burden Of Old Cases And Timeliness’ Read More »
The words “we received concerns…” can often be found in an inspection report from the CQC. These illusive and ill-defined ‘concerns’ often form the basis for an inspection. This inspection may mark the beginning of a period of CQC scrutiny; this scrutiny may lead to enforcement action such as the issuing of a Warning Notice …
The Health and Care Professions Council (“HCPC”) has announced that it will be offering new support to registrants who are going through the Fitness to Practise (“FTP”) process. As readers will be aware, the HCPC is the independent regulator of health and care professionals in the UK and regulates over 280,000 professionals across 15 separate …
On 11 May 2023 NHS England announced that it has failed to meet key targets to tackle the backlogs in cancer care and routine treatment. The number of people waiting more than 18 months for treatment has fallen by over 90%, but there are still a record 7.3 million people on an NHS hospital waiting …
NHS misses targets in England to tackle care backlogs Read More »
More people will be able to access health services without needing to see a General Practitioner (“GP”) under a new proposed plan (“The Access Recovery Plan”) launched by Department of Health Social Care (“DHSC”) officials in England on 9 May 2023. The Access Recovery Plan proposes that patients now use high street pharmacies for common …
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As many will be aware, a head teacher, Ruth Perry tragically took her life recently. While it may never be known exactly what caused Ruth to act in that way, it followed her being informed that her school would be downgraded from Outstanding, the highest rating, to Inadequate, the lowest. Ruth’s sister has said Ruth …
Skills for Care in partnership with The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and The Outstanding Society has produced a ‘Good and Outstanding (GO)’ online toolkit to support adult social care services to prepare for Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspections. As the CQC will be introducing …
There has been a recent outcry from health and social care providers that it is near to impossible to get NHS dental services when residents require them. According to the Manager of an Essex care home, they have had to rely on their own internal procedures to ensure that the health of their residents doesn’t …
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