 My diabetes, my care: community diabetes care review
At the beginning of this month we published a report exploring the quality of care for people with diabetes in England. My diabetes, my care highlights that despite a mostly good picture of care overall, the provision of care and support to help people successfully self-manage their condition is not always flexible and responsive enough to meet individual needs.
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 Review of how NHS trusts investigate and learn from deaths - update
We have now completed our site visits and are continuing to complete our evidence gathering, analyse our findings and develop recommendations. Read more online, where you can also sign up to receive an alert when we publish our report.
Your experience
We are testing a number of scenarios to understand the systems and processes used by NHS acute, community and mental health trusts. Get involved through our online community - if you're not yet a member you can sign up here.
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Confidential personal information
Following a public consultation earlier this year, we have published an updated version of our code of practice on confidential personal information. The code of practice explains how we sometimes need to use our statutory powers to look at people’s information during inspections and provides assurance that the information will be handled safely.
Supporting innovation
CQC chief executive David Behan has this month published a blog discussing how we as the regulator can support innovation and new models of health and social care.
Other news
National Guardian update
Dr Henrietta Hughes starts as National Guardian for
the NHS in October. Together with Freedom to Speak Up Guardians
in NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts, her role is to help build a more positive
culture in the NHS, where staff experience is valued as a key step in ensuring
safe and excellent delivery of care. The deadline for trusts to nominate
their Freedom to Speak Up Guardian is 1 October 2016. The National Guardian’s Office is
hosting a series of events to support
newly-appointed Freedom to Speak Up Guardians over the next
three months.
New good practice report for CT scanning and general
X-ray
The Department of Health has published an expert
working party report, which can be found here.
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