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Tag Archives: Primary Medical Services
CQC’s Strategy for 2016 to 2021 (CQC)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) last month published their strategy, for the years 2016 to 2021, to ensure that more people receive higher quality care. This strategy aims to offer a “targeted, responsive and collaborative” approach to regulation, with … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, Non-Pharmacological Treatments, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
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Broad Overview: the State of Health and Adult Social Care Report (CQC)
Summary The Care Quality Commission (CQC) review of the quality of care provided by hospitals, care homes and GP practices in England, published earlier this month, discloses information about the persistence of unjustifiable variations in quality and safety. Safety, safeguarding and … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Local Interest, Management of Condition, Mental Health, Models of Dementia Care, National, NHS, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, SCIE, Standards, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Adult Safeguarding, Adult Social Care, Adult Social Care Provision (CQC), Adult Social Care Services, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Care Skillsbase, Caring (CQC Inspection Question), Community Health Services, CQC Challenge to Health and Adult Social Care System, CQC Challenge to Providers, CQC Inspection Areas Mapped to SCIE Products and Services, CQC Inspection Questions (Safe Effective Caring Responsive Well-Led), CQC Inspections of GP Surgeries, CQC Royal Berkshire Hospital inspection Report (June 2014), Dementia Care in the Acute Hospital, Effective (CQC Inspection Question), GP Cooperatives and Out-of-Hours Services, GP Out-of-Hours Services, GP Practices, Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Hope House Children’s Hospice, Improving Patient Safety, Independent Ambulance Services, Inspection of GP Out-of-Hours Services, Inspection of GP Practices, Leadership, Local Variations, Medway Maritime Hospital, Mental Health Care, Multi-Disciplinary Working, NHS Community Health Services, NHS Mental Health Services, Patient Safety, Primary Medical Services, Quality Improvement, Responsive (CQC Inspection Question), Responsiveness, Safe (CQC Inspection Question), Safeguarding, Safeguarding Adults at Risk, Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults, SCIE's Support Tools for Care Providers on Care Quality Improvement, Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), Staffing, State of Care 2013/14 (CQC), Training and Competency, Unacceptable Variations, Well-Led (CQC Inspection Question), Well-Led Indicators (CQC)
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Quality of NHS and Social Care Declining? (BBC News / Care Quality Commission)
Summary The latest report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has suggested that the quality of services provided to people across the health and care sectors in England may be beginning to suffer. The report presents a summary of over 13,000 inspections … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Community Care, CQC: Care Quality Commission, End of Life Care, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Patient Care Pathway, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
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