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 …
A mental health hospital was closed following a report by CQC which forced 30 patients to be moved at extremely short notice with a further 400 outpatients also being affected. The report noted that the building built in the 18th Century posed a ‘significant risk to patients’; the criticisms that have commented on the swift …
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Ahead of George Osborne’s 2016 Budget on Wednesday 16 March, a group of 12 leading doctors have written to urge him to increase funding for social care. They argue that health care and social care can no longer be looked at as separate entities and specific targeted funding for social care should be increased. The …
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The first NHS national guardian has stepped down from her post owing to the pressure of fulfilling the post part time in addition to her other role as chief nurse at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust. She was due to begin the post officially in April this year but resigned before taking it on. …
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