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26
May 2015

CQC reports biggest NHS trust failing on quality of care and patient safety

Barts Health Trust in London has been rated as inadequate on issues including the number of cancelled operations and staff shortages. The trust was found to be critically understaffed, focused too little on safety, and had too few beds which led to numerous cancelled operations. In the CQC’s report, it said “Overall, this trust was…

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26
May 2015

Patients suffering as nurses fail to respond to call bells

A report by the Care Quality Commission has found that only 13% of patients surveyed said that they were attended to straight away. Six per cent of patients said that they waited for longer than five minutes and one per cent said their call bell was not answered at all. Of the nearly 60,000 patients…

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20
May 2015

Salil Chitre – 27.03.2015

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20
May 2015

Mark Heckles – 20.03.2015

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