Backlogs at the Care Quality Commission (CQC) mean some concerns being flagged to the watchdog are going months without a response, MPs have heard. The organisation’s new chief executive said
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Calls to consider scrapping the use of one-word ratings by the health watchdog for adult social services are “not a priority”, the Government has said. Labour MP Josh Fenton-Glynn warned
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Hundreds of prisoners have missed hospital appointments or family funerals due to “failures” in prisoner transport, the prison inspectorate has found. Interim chief inspector of prisons for Scotland, Stephen Sandham,
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Some young people receiving mental health care in hospital are being moved to settings like bed and breakfast hostels and caravans on holiday sites when they turn 18, an investigation
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Hydebank Wood Secure College and Women’s Prison has become the first unit in Northern Ireland to secure outcomes at the “highest achievable level”, two independent reports have found. However the
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Failing hospitals will be named and shamed in league tables and NHS managers sacked if they cannot improve patient care and take control of finances, under Government plans. Health Secretary
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Government officials will be sent in to oversee the running of an east London council after inspectors uncovered major failings and a “toxic” culture. An inspection report found a lack
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Lack of access to good and timely care for children and young people “risks failing their future”, a health watchdog has warned. Delays in both physical and mental healthcare for
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There is an “urgent need for a rapid turnaround” of England’s health watchdog owing to “significant failings” in how it works, according to a damning review. The final report of
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The quality of in-prison learning for young offenders has been in decline over the past 10 years, a joint review into schooling for detained youths has uncovered. The review, undertaken
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