Compliance
Asbestos in the practice
Almost 90% of trusts have hospitals with asbestos in them, a freedom of information investigation by the BBC has found. This silent killer was an keep reading
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Seven ways practices can improve medicines safety
Providers across all health and care settings are working to ensure safe, high-quality care, often in challenging circumstances, says the CQC. But incidents involving medicines keep reading
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10 surprising things you can reclaim VAT on
HMRC and the NHS haven’t always had the healthiest of relationships; the long-running saga of whether the NHS could or couldn’t reclaim VAT was finally keep reading
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CQC Board Meetings
Did you know that you can view the CQC board meeting online? The regulator has taken the bold decision to film and then upload all keep reading
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Dealing with allegations of abuse
Recent investigations into care home abuse have demonstrated what can happen when allegations are covered up or ignored. In this article we review the CQC keep reading
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‘Ghost patients’ to be investigated by NHS fraud squad
Millions of ‘ghost patients’ will be investigated by a special team on behalf of NHS England As reported by the BBC, the NHS Counter Fraud keep reading
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‘Extending our indemnity cover to community pharmacists is misplaced’
While delighted with the introduction of a state-backed indemnity scheme for practice pharmacists, the GP Pharmacist thinks extending this to the community sector is inappropriate keep reading
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BMA research reveals patients being cared for in ‘temporary’ beds
BMA research has revealed that patients are being routinely cared for in ‘temporary’ beds, as hospitals in England struggle to cope with rising demand New keep reading
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Rethink calls for changes to community mental health care
Rethink Mental Illness is pressing for a change in the way we treat those who experience severe mental health problems. Instead of focusing all our keep reading
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Corporate-level compliance
Primary care providers are growing larger, so how does the CQC work with these new corporate entities? Practice Business investigates Primary care is seeing a keep reading