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The Care Quality Commission was established as an integrated regulator for England's health and adult social care services by the Health and Social Care Act 2008 [3] [4] to replace these three bodies. The commission was created in shadow form on 1 October 2008 and began operating on 1 April 2009.
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest mental health and disability Trusts in England employing more than 9,000 staff, serving a population of approximately 1.7 million, providing services across an area totalling 4,800 square miles. It works from over 70 sites across Cumbria, Northumberland, Newcastle ...
The Trust was highlighted by NHS England as having 4 (the most at any Trust) of the 148 reported never events in the period from April to September 2013. [5] The trust was rated outstanding by the Care Quality Commission in June 2016. It is fifth trust and first teaching hospital to be put in this category. [6]
A hospital in Bradford has been rated as good by the health watchdog after a number of whistleblowers raised concerns about care. An unannounced inspection was carried out at St Luke's Hospital by ...
The Trust is building a small new hospital in Berwick, [5] its most northerly outpost, following the very unpopular decision to temporarily close Berwick Maternity Unit [6] The trust opened the first hospital in England purpose-built for emergency care at Cramlington in June 2015. The Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital cost £75 ...
Newcastle General Hospital (NGH) was for many years the main hospital for the city of Newcastle upon Tyne, England.As part of Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust moving from three to two key sites, the hospital was closed and the majority of services transferred to the city's other two hospitals, the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Freeman Hospital.
The group charged in England and Wales with checking if the care delivered by the NHS is genuinely safe and fit for purpose is the Care Quality Commission, or CQC. Although the CQC describes itself as the "independent regulator of all health and social care services in England" [1] , it is in fact "accountable to the public, Parliament and the ...
The site was converted to be a hospital at the cost of £23.5 million. [5] The site had 460 beds available with the building divided into 16 wards. [6] It was operated by Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. [7]