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Staff. 3,063 FTE (2020/21) [2] Website. www.cqc.org.uk. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care of the United Kingdom. It was established in 2009 to regulate and inspect health and social care providers in England. It was formed from three predecessor organisations:
Roemer's law. In health policy, Roemer's law may be expressed as "in an insured population, a hospital bed built is a bed filled." [1] The rule was deduced by the American health services researcher Milton Roemer, working at the UCLA School of Public Health. Roemer and colleagues found a positive correlation between the number of short-term ...
The logo of the NHS for England. Criticism of the National Health Service (England) includes issues such as access, waiting lists, healthcare coverage, and various scandals. The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded health care system of England, created under the National Health Service Act 1946 by the post-war Labour government ...
The state has been investigating complaints at the 394-bed hospital since last week. The hospital has been canceling or rescheduling dozens of surgeries and procedures.
It involved 112 beds, including 78 consultant beds, 26 general practitioner beds, and eight private patients beds. There was also a delivery suite. The unit had a special care unit with 21 cots on the sixth floor, and ante-natal clinic, and midwifery training school on the ground floor. The total cost was £800,000. [5]
In 2018, the CQC rated the trust as requiring improvement. [19] When Scan4Safety was introduced in its pharmacies the trust managed to reduce dispensing errors by 76%. [20] In 2022 89 patients waited in A&E longer than 48 hours for a bed in April and May with 865 patients waited in the ED longer than 24 hours in the same period. [21]
The trust, which had 1,500 beds, planned to open 56 more beds on the Stoke site. [3] The trust had 4,000-plus compliments (many from A&E patients) in 2015 and 800 formal complaints. [4] The GP streaming service in the A&E department was run by Vocare, but after a Care Quality Commission inspection in 2018 the trust took it over, at least ...
July 2009 – September 2012. Cynthia Bower (born 6 July 1955) is a former manager in the National Health Service, and the first Chief Executive of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in the United Kingdom, from which she was forced to resign after the Winterbourne View hospital abuse investigation and a resultant investigation by the Department ...