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CQC ‘duty of candour’ guidance and NMC code consultations
July 28, 2014AvMA is calling for a more proactive and robust approach from the CQC to monitoring and enforcing compliance with the Duty of Candour. In its consultation, the CQC suggests it will “mainly use the new regulations on candour to confirm or encourage good practice through the ratings we give, rather than enforce them directly”. This […]
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Many CCGs ignoring surgical evidence
July 15, 2014AvMA welcomes the report of the Royal College of Surgeons on ‘Access to Surgery: A Postcode Lottery?’ which raises very obvious patient safety issues about the quality of clinical input to the GP commissioning of the surgical services for patients highlighted in the report. Chair of AvMA’s trustees, Rita Lewis said: “Patient expectations for surgical […]
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Medical innovation bill remains a threat
June 30, 2014Lord Saatchi’s controversial Medical Innovation Bill survived the 2nd reading in the House of Lords on 27th June and will now progress to the committee stage. AvMA and others have deemed the Bill dangerous and unnecessary and a threat to patient safety and justice. Read Peter Walsh’s blog about the Bill. Also see AvMA’s briefing on […]
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Medical innovation bill poses threat to patient safety and justice
June 25, 2014Lord Saatchi’s Medical Innovation Bill is to be debated in the House of Lords on 27th June. The Bill represents a significant threat to patient safety and justice, as well as being unnecessary. Leading doctors’ organisations, regulators and patients’ organisations have also deemed the Bill dangerous and unnecessary. However, the Bill has been promoted in a disingenous and […]
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New patient safety campaign and website launched
June 25, 2014A new campaign “Sign up to Safety” has been launched by Jeremy Hunt, aimed at saving 6,000 lives a year (half the estimated number of deaths each year in England due to lapses in patient safety). there is also a new patient safety section of the NHS Choices website which now carries information on the rate of […]