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Newsletter
Our monthly update for everyone interested in health and social care
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Medicines safety in NHS trusts
Our Insight reports aim to help everyone involved in health and social care work together and learn from the pandemic.
This month’s Insight report looks at medication safety in NHS trusts, focusing on the role of medication safety officers (MSOs).
It is based on a review of medication safety in 95% of England’s NHS trusts, carried out between May and July 2021, using discussions with MSOs, and pharmacy and trust leaders in acute, community, mental health and ambulance NHS trusts.
This edition of Insight also updates our regular data on the number of death notifications by care homes, and Office for National Statistics weekly death registrations and occurrences.
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Help improve our website
We're making improvements to our website, and we'd like your help.
We’d like to understand what information you need to see when you are searching for a health or social care provider (e.g. a care home, a hospital or a GP surgery).
You can help us by taking part in a short exercise where you tell us what kinds of information are most important to you.
The activity shouldn't take longer than 5 to 10 minutes to complete.
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Mental health care for children and young people during the pandemic
Our provider collaboration reviews (PCRs) look at how health and social care providers are working together in local areas. They aim to help providers learn from each other's experience of responding to coronavirus (COVID-19).
The latest PCR looked at the mental health care of children and young people in 7 areas of England in June and July 2021.
The review teams followed the journey of a number of individuals as they moved through the health and social care system – as well as hearing from young people, their families, and people who work in services.
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Join us! Work for CQC
CQC staff have a wide range of skills and work across many disciplines.
Find out about roles within CQC, Healthwatch England and the Office of the National Guardian.
Current vacancies include:
- Assistant Inspector - Mental Health & Community Health Services - East and Midlands (home based, region specific)
- Rating Review Officer (home based, flexible location)
- Lead Data Modeller (home based, flexible location)
Benefits include generous leave entitlement, NHS or Nest pension schemes and a wide range of employee discounts.
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Our new responsibilities
The new Health and Care Bill will give CQC new powers to check how local authorities deliver their social care duties. A new amendment will also give us oversight of Integrated Care Systems (ICSs).
Rosie Benneyworth, Chief Inspector of Primary Medical Services and Integrated Care, and Kate Terroni, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care, have written a blog explaining what the changes mean, and how we hope to use these powers to look at how care is improving outcomes for people and reducing inequalities.
We're also asking you to share your views on our new role in regulating systems and local authorities.
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Because we all care campaign
January will see the return of our Because we all care campaign.
The campaign aims to support and encourage more people to feedback on health or social care services that they - or a loved one - have experienced.
We know that sharing feedback can be a positive, caring and empowering act. Through the campaign, we also want to look at the ways giving feedback can strengthen relationships between people receiving care and the people providing it.
Feedback is essential to the NHS and social care. But it's even more important than ever now, as services and systems deal with the impacts of the pandemic. People’s experiences of care are fundamental to understanding and improving services.
If you want to get involved with the Because We All Care campaign, or want to find out more, email: Jay.Harman@cqc.org.uk
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CQC reports on safe use of radiation in healthcare settings
Our annual report on how we enforce the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations - IR(ME)R - has been published.
The report provides a breakdown of the number and type of notifications we received about IR(ME)R incidents between 1 April 2020 and 31 March 2021, and findings from our inspections.
We also share learning from examples of errors and the actions that providers took to improve.
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Do you work in health or social care?
Make sure you see the latest information about the changes that we're making to the way that we work due to coronavirus.
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