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CQC strategy consultation – get involved!
January 28, 2016
Shaping the future This week the Care Quality Commission (CQC) launched its public consultation document on how its work will look for the next five years. The proposed strategy, ‘Shaping the…
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CQC Inspections & How to Achieve Outstanding
October 16, 2015
Communication – On the day of the inspection At a conference last week I was fortunate to listen to a presentation from a couple of CQC inspectors who had come…
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Consent – Yes or No?
October 5, 2015
What is informed consent? Recently I was asked to agree to something important. I didn’t feel I had enough information to make a decision there and then and I felt…
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Are CQC Inspections Getting Tougher?
September 28, 2015
Almost a third of recent inspections ‘Requires improvement’ I’ve been looking at some recent CQC reports and it seems that the CQC inspection teams aren’t pulling any punches when it…
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Duty of Candour: Do we have to be compelled to be candid?
July 9, 2015
The Duty of Candour places a responsibility on providers to be open and honest about incidents in the delivery of care. But surely this goes without saying. In March 2015…
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New CQC Fundamental Standards
July 7, 2015
The new CQC Fundamental Standards have been released by the CQC and inspections against these new standards are now in progress.Based on the latest information from the CQC, we will…
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Have you submitted your annual complaints return yet?
June 22, 2015
A reminder Practices will have received a reminder this week to submit their complaints data return for 2014/15 by 8th July 2015. This data return monitors written General Practice (including…
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Those dreaded words…..
May 21, 2015
“As a consequence the Committee has determined to direct that (insert your name) be erased from the Dentists Register pursuant to section 27B(6)(a) of the Dentists Act 1984, as amended.”…
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