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Creation of the CQC: Masterstroke or mistake?
alexqcsOnce a masterstroke In the wake of recent events that have put the CQC in the headlines, the regulator is under...
Sink or Swim
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)“A practice has resorted to hand-delivering letters rather than paying for stamps, as funding pressures bear down on GPs” -...
Let’s Get Physical
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)The theme of this year’s mental health awareness week was the importance of physical exercise in promoting mental health and...
Festival Musings
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)I went to Glastonbury once, with four teenage children and high hopes of a good time. The experience was not...
Mouse Trap
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)I have just been reviewing some policies on Cross Infection, which included the usual missives about surgery cleaning routines. We...
Spending review takes £2bn from NHS to join up health and social care
alexqcsRelieving the crisis in acute care This week the Chancellor delivered his speech to announce the much anticipated 2013 spending review....
Whistleblowers
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)Recent revelations about the NHS and even the Care Quality Commission itself, will do little to reassure those who fear...
Hands Off – what the Mental Capacity Act says about restraint
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)What would a member of care home staff do if they saw a frail, elderly and confused resident walk out...
Giving Up – Smoking and Mental Health
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)A recent debate in the House of Commons about the state of mental health in the UK (which will hopefully...
Mental Health, Advocacy and Human Rights
Quality Compliance Systems (QCS)The Human Rights Act 1998 (which actually came into force in 2000) is never far from the news, and sometimes...
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