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Oct 2015
CQC review highlights ‘significant concern’ over safety across the NHS
Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission have found that, of 79 trusts recently inspected, safety problems have been highlighted in three quarters of cases, and concerns have also been found with one in three GP services.
Major issues to come forward were lack of staff, the way mistakes were investigated and medicines managed.
The CQC’s chief executive David Behan, said “What we know from our report and from other research is that the leadership of an organisation sets the culture of that organisation.
“If the leadership says the important things around here are quality and safety, then that’s what people attend to.”
General secretary of the Royal College of Nursing Janet Davies, has said that she believes that a significant factor is problems with finances (NHS trusts have incurred an overspend of nearly £1bn in the first three months of the financial year, which is more than the deficit for the whole of 2014-15).
Ms Davies went on to say “There must be more investment in training nurses, keeping nurses and listening to nurses.”
Healthwatch England’s chief executive Katherine Rake, said that the problems highlighted were “unacceptable” and that it was vital to learn from mistakes.
“We would now like to see all services operate with the right culture of openness and transparency when things go wrong”, she said.
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