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Professor Ted Baker will be CQC's new Chief Inspector of Hospitals
Professor Ted Baker has been appointed as CQC’s new Chief Inspector of Hospitals and will take over the role from Professor Sir Mike Richards who is to retire at the end of July.
Professor Baker has been in his current role as Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals since January 2014, when he joined CQC to support the development and implementation of a new approach to hospital inspection.
For more on this story, please visit our website.
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NHS trusts tell their stories of improvement
We published a report on Wednesday 14 June which explores how eight NHS trusts have been able to make improvements to the quality of care they are delivering and to improve their CQC rating.
The report, which was based on interviews with staff, patients and local patient group representatives, reflects on the steps trusts took in order to bring about improvements in their organisations.
Read the full report here.
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Fire safety in registered premises
Sir David Behan has written to providers of care homes, hospices and independent hospitals, as well as their representative bodies, to encourage them to review their fire safety arrangements to ensure they are up to date, understood and applied consistently. You can read Sir David's letter here.
CQC will continue to assess fire safety when we register and inspect providers, focusing on passive and active fire protection and on how fire safety is managed on a day to day basis.
Next Phase of regulation consultation now open
On Monday 12 June 2017 we launched our second consultation on our next phase of regulation. We are seeking views on specific proposals for how we will:
- improve the structure of registration and clarify our definition of registered providers
- monitor, inspect and rate new models of care and large or complex providers
- use our unique knowledge to encourage improvements in the quality of care in local areas
- regulate primary medical services and adult social care services
- carry out our role in relation to the fit and proper persons requirement.
We want to keep the elements that we know people value, and to improve what people tell us we can do better. We will continue to work with people who use services, providers, professionals and our other local and national partners to co-produce what we do.
You can respond to this consultation until Tuesday 8 August using this online web form.
CQC Insight dashboard
Later this summer, some NHS trusts will receive an email
inviting them to access the online CQC Insight dashboard. The
dashboard is a tool that has been developed to support monitoring across
a wide number of quality indicators. CQC Insight replaces
'Intelligent Monitoring' and will be updated on a monthly basis to show the most up-do-date
information we hold about each trust.
Nurses and surgeons — could you be our specialist advisors?
From July to December 2017 we will be carrying out inspections of independent ophthalmic services which fall in to the following categories:
- Refractive eye surgery procedures provided by high street
ophthalmic clinics
- Cataract surgery and other ophthalmic surgery procedures
We are currently seeking to recruit nurses and surgeons to carry out the
role of Specialist Advisor on the above independent health inspections, who
will act as a source of specialist advice.
Specialist Advisors are senior clinicians, currently working in active
clinical practice. Successful candidates will have up to date knowledge, skills
and experience of independent health eye services and will be available to
undertake inspections on an adhoc basis alongside their current role.
Successful candidates will be invited to interview in July. CQC training
will also be provided.
To apply, and for further information, please contact the Flexible
Workforce Office by calling 0191 233 3591 or contact us via email.
Other news
Healthcare
Quality Improvement Partnership updated guidance document
The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has
published a revised version of the guidance document ‘Detection and Management
of Outliers for National Clinical Audits’.
This guidance applies to national clinical audit
providers (NCA) and healthcare provider organisations and the document can be found on the HQIP website.
Ratings map for care homes, GPs and hospitals now live
You can search for care homes, hospitals or GP practices and their ratings by using our interactive map. To view care homes and GP practices please zoom into a local area.
Find the map on our website.
Events
We will be exhibiting at a King's Fund conference on 11 and 12 July. The conference will look at how technology and innovation is being harnessed within the NHS.
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Keep up with our work with professionals and provider organisations in England by following us on Twitter @CQCProf.
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