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A change afoot for self-employed healthcare practitioners and enhanced DBS checks?

Safeguarding all patients, including children and vulnerable adults, is of paramount importance. Accordingly, all registered healthcare practitioners accept that they will be subject to Disclosure and Barring Service (“DBS”) checks, usually enhanced or enhanced with barred list checks, when employed or contracting with certain organisations. This not only provides the required assurances to those employing …

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CQC Hot Topic – Providers Under Scrutiny for Staffing Records

Over recent months we have noticed an increase in Providers being criticised by the CQC in relation to compliance with regulatory requirements related to staff recruitment records. This can lead to regulatory breaches being referenced in inspection reports which can limit a Provider’s CQC rating. What do the Regulations say? Regulation 19 of the Health …

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