GPs

As expected, only a small number of practices which have been inspected have had a ‘Requires Improvement’ or ‘Inadequate’ rating. Whilst some of the reasons for these ratings may be…

Registered health and social care services in Scotland are inspected and regulated using the National Care Standards. These are also used by service users and their carers in choosing and…

Freedom of speech We all know about the recent junior doctors’ protests and I’m not going to discuss it in this blog, but it has highlighted the issue about speaking…

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…

What is Revalidation? About 6 months ago all the talk was about nurse revalidation, what it was and what nurses had to do. From April 2016 all nurses and midwives…

Another year has gone and I’m sure it’s been a busy one for most of you. With contractual changes and new legislation it’s often difficult to keep up with everything…

What should we do first? When the CQC calls to let you know they’ll be visiting in the next two weeks Practices are often filled with dread. There’s a mixed…

What’s New?  Back in February I blogged about the Improving Patient Online Access Enhanced Service which ended at the end of March 2015 and that GP Practices must implement their…