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CQC given power to award ratings to healthcare websites and other non-NHS services

The Department of Health has confirmed that it will grant the Care Quality Commission (CQC) the power to rate even more healthcare services, such as online GPs. The CQC already rates NHS and independent hospitals, general practices and adult social care services as Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement and Inadequate. However, once amendments to the CQC …

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Labour decries NHS Crisis

The Labour Party has described the deepening NHS crisis as a “disaster”. Recent figures have shown there are over 100,000 job openings across the NHS. It has been brought to light by a freedom of information request by the Labour Party, that there is serious understaffing occurring across the NHS with over 40,000 nurses and …

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The King’s Fund loses its Chair

King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust’s Chair resigns in protest over underfunding of health care services. According to the Guardian, Lord Kerslake contended that due to severe Government underfunding that ‘hospitals cannot perform their key role properly’. Since taking on responsibility for Bromley’s Princess Royal University hospital in 2014, the Trust has struggled to cope alongside …

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Inspection of CQC finds room for improvement – Care Talk Magazine

CQC’s function is to inspect health and social care settings, to encourage improvement and take action where failings have been identified.  The size of the task that they undertake is large and progress as against its function is predicated on the ability to objectively assess each provider on their merits or otherwise. The report conducted …

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PFI in the NHS

Between 1995 and 1997 I was engaged in working on 2 hospital PFI schemes.  Both went on to complete – one harshly held back by the purdah period that preceded Tony Blair’s first Labour administration. In a sense this was a tall order, an initiative that linked Private Finance with Public Health (the NHS) was …

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CQC rate 9 in 10 GPs as good or outstanding

According to CQC GP surgeries are the highest performing sector in the NHS. This comes above hospitals, mental health and social care. Despite this, inspectors did note safety concerns at one in seven practices. These problems included; storing vaccines at the right temperature, filling in prescriptions quickly enough, having defibrillators that work properly and learning …

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Plans unveiled to potentially ‘blacklist’ dangerous unregulated NHS staff

The Department of Health is considering using prohibition orders against staff who are not covered by statutory regulations currently in place which apply to nurses and doctors. This move would require legislation to make it enforceable and would create a list of unregulated staff who are not permitted to work in the NHS. This could …

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HSJ Channel, Insight and Influence: Not all it seems: The success regime has teeth

In December 2014 Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England, announced plans to work with Monitor and the NHS Trust Development Authority to take charge of struggling health economies and move them to new models of care as outlined in the organisation’s NHS Five Year Forward View. This would be done through the newly established “success regime”. …

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