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17 June 2013

CQC consults on ‘Ofsted-style’ regime

The Care Quality Commission has launched a public consultation on proposals to change its inspection regime and introduce ‘Ofsted-style’ ratings
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22 March 2013

Hunt’s Ofsted plan marked down

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt should think carefully before re-introducing ‘Ofsted-style’ ratings into the NHS, the Nuffield Trust has concluded.
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15 March 2013

Nuffield Trust warns against ‘big stick’

The government should avoid the temptation to over-regulate the health service or to take a ‘big stick’ approach to getting
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1 October 2012

CQC inspection powers questioned

Dr Mary Hawking has raised concerns about the inspection powers of the Care Quality Commission regarding access to individual patient
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17 August 2012

CQC confirms QinetiQ info sifting deal

The Care Quality Commission is introducing intelligent data mining software to monitor the performance of health and social care providers.
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11 January 2011

CQC to use QinetiQ software to mine data

The Care Quality Commission will start piloting intelligent data mining software similar to that used by the intelligence service to
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26 July 2010

Information Centre wins in ALB review

The NHS Information Centre has come out of the Department of Health’s arms length body review with a promise that
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25 February 2010

Keogh to lead work on new stats for NHS

The government has set up a working group to develop a single hospital standardised mortality ratio for the NHS in
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19 February 2010

Acute trusts go-live with Bluespier EDS

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have gone live with a new electronic discharge system
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16 February 2010

CQC raises discharge concerns

Almost 50% of GPs are not receiving discharge summaries from acute trusts in time for them to be useful, according
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