CQC has today set out how it will work more effectively with Health Education England (HEE).
HEE is responsible for the education and training of people who work in healthcare such as: nurses, doctors, physiotherapists and healthcare assistants. This is monitored by them during visits to observe the quality of training.
CQC has published a memorandum of understanding, which gives details of the principles both organisations will follow.
The MoU has two annexes. The first covers acute hospitals and the second primary medical services. The agreements provide details on how both organisations have agreed to work together more closely, including sharing information.
The National Guardian Office has published a document to explain where a local guardian sits in an organisation and the principles which underpin their role to help to improve the culture around raising concerns.
The document, entitled Freedom to speak Up Guardians - Purpose and key principles of the role includes principle examples.
This guidance updates and replaces NICE technology appraisal guidance 111 issued in November 2006 (amended September 2007, August 2009).
The review and re-appraisal of donepezil, galantamine, rivastigmine and memantine for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease has resulted in a change in the guidance.
Specifically:
donepezil, galantamine and rivastigmine are now recommended as options for managing mild as well as moderate Alzheimer’s disease, and
memantine is now recommended as an option for managing moderate Alzheimer’s disease for people who cannot take AChE inhibitors, and as an option for managing severe Alzheimer’s disease.
In May 2016, a new recommendation was added on providing information about olanzapine when choosing antipsychotic medication for children and young people with a first episode of psychosis.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes the findings of a short-notice, focussed inspection of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, conducted over four days in January 2016.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the services provided by Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust as Requires Improvement following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
Open access. Improving healthcare services can all too easily become synonymous with the use of certain in vogue tools for improving quality. Trigger tools, run charts and driver diagrams are just three examples of techniques used by frontline staff who are undertaking improvement work. Educators seeking to teach improvement are similarly faced with long lists of possible approaches and techniques with which to fill their course descriptions. As a consequence the temptation for improvement leaders and teachers is to include yet another technique in an already crowded curriculum, to add in more ‘stuff’.
But what if focusing so much on the tools is actually unhelpful? What if our attempts to create better and safer organisations is muddled rather than enhanced by the growing interest in so many techniques? Could we be putting off the very people we need to engage by the use of what can be seen as jargon? Might it lead people to see improvement as an event or a ‘project’ rather than as a way of working?
We have now published two further prototype reports looking at how we might assess the quality of care in a local area in order to encourage improvement.
Looking across an area helps us explore, on behalf of people using services, whether local health and care services are working together in ways that reflect people's needs.
The project that has resulted in these reports on Salford and Tameside was designed to find out if we would be able to form a view about quality across an area as a whole. We recognise that our existing regulation of individual care providers, such as hospitals, care homes or GP services, needs to develop to reflect the changing ways in which care is being delivered.
Our 2016 to 2021 strategy sets out an ambitious vision: a more targeted, responsive and collaborative approach to regulation so more people get high-quality care.
The King’s Fund was commissioned by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust to work with their Quality Board to facilitate an assessment of its existing approaches to quality improvement and to develop a strategy for future work.
Published today, the Care Quality Commission’s five year strategy, includes a greater focus on using the voices of patients, service users and their families, along with other information, to target inspections.
CQC is responsible for monitoring, inspecting and regulating health and social care in England. The new strategy sets out how CQC will combine learning from inspections with better use of intelligence from the public and others to focus inspections more tightly on where people may be at risk of poor care.
Are trusts obliged to disclose investigation reports following serious incidents, asks Laura Paton. Please contact the library to receive a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai