How and when to register a regulated activity with the CQC

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 526-529
Author(s):  
Laura Hannah
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Care Provider ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality Commission

It is essential for any care provider to register with the Care Quality Commission any regulated activities carried out and to cover all staff in this registration. Laura Hannah explains the pitfalls around the legislation and provides case studies of non-compliance.

scholarly journals Determining the skills needed by frontline NHS staff to deliver quality improvement: findings from six case studies

2021 ◽  
pp. bmjqs-2021-013065
Author(s):  
David Wright ◽  
John Gabbay ◽  
Andrée Le May
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Healthcare Staff ◽  
Frontline Staff ◽  
Care Quality Commission ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Practice Knowledge ◽  
The Right

BackgroundPrevious studies have detailed the technical, learning and soft skills healthcare staff deploy to deliver quality improvement (QI). However, research has mainly focused on management and leadership skills, overlooking the skills frontline staff use to improve care. Our research explored which skills mattered to frontline health practitioners delivering QI projects.Study designWe used a theory-driven approach, informed by communities of practice, knowledge-in-practice-in-context and positive deviance theory. We used case studies to examine skill use in three pseudonymised English hospital Trusts, selected on the basis of Care Quality Commission rating. Seventy-three senior staff orientation interviews led to the selection of two QI projects at each site. Snowball sampling obtained a maximally varied range of 87 staff with whom we held 122 semistructured interviews at different stages of QI delivery, analysed thematically.ResultsSix overarching ‘Socio-Organisational Functional and Facilitative Tasks’ (SOFFTs) were deployed by frontline staff. Several of these had to be enacted to address challenges faced. The SOFFTs included: (1) adopting and promulgating the appropriate organisational environment; (2) managing the QI rollercoaster; (3) getting the problem right; (4) getting the right message to the right people; (5) enabling learning to occur; and (6) contextualising experience. Each task had its own inherent skills.ConclusionOur case studies provide a nuanced understanding of the skills used by healthcare staff. While technical skills are important, the ability to judge when and how to use wider skills was paramount. The provision of QI training and fidelity to the improvement programme may be less of a priority than the deployment of SOFFT skills used to overcome barriers. QI projects will fail if such skills and resources are not accessed.

scholarly journals Margaret McCartney: The Care Quality Commission is not fit for purpose

BMJ ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 349 (dec12 3) ◽  
pp. g7460-g7460 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. McCartney
Keyword(s):  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality Commission ◽  
Fit For Purpose

Do not attempt resuscitation decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 562-563
Author(s):  
Alan Glasper
Keyword(s):  
Care Quality ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Do Not Resuscitate ◽  
Care Quality Commission ◽  
Do Not Resuscitate Orders ◽  
The University

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper, from the University of Southampton, discusses concerns raised by the Care Quality Commission about the imposition of do not resuscitate orders on some patients during the pandemic

Care Quality Commission slams blanket ‘do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ decisions during the pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 196-200
Author(s):  
Alan Glasper
Keyword(s):  
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Emeritus Professor ◽  
Care Quality Commission ◽  
The University

Emeritus Professor Alan Glasper from the University of Southampton examines why the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has raised serious concerns relating to the use of ‘do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation’ (DNACPR) orders throughout the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

Preparing for Care Quality Commission registration as an aesthetic practitioner

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-30
Author(s):  
Tracey Jones
Keyword(s):  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality Commission

Tracey Jones offers help and advice on the daunting prospect of Care Quality Commission registration

Do we need medical leadership or medical engagement?

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 173-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Spurgeon ◽  
Paul Long ◽  
John Clark ◽  
Frank Daly
Keyword(s):  
Care Quality ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Organisational Performance ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Care Quality Commission ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Medical Leadership ◽  
First Time ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
A Current

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address issues of medical leadership within health systems and to clarify the associated conceptual issues, for example, leadership versus management and medical versus clinical leadership. However, its principle contribution is to raise the issue of the purpose or outcome of medical leadership, and, in this respect, it argues that it is to promote medical engagement. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is to provide evidence, both from the literature and empirically, to suggest that enhanced medical engagement leads to improved organisational performance and, in doing so, to review the associated concepts. Findings – Building on current evidence from the UK and Australia, the authors strengthen previous findings that effective medical leadership underpins the effective organisational performance. Research limitations/implications – There is a current imbalance between the size of the databases on medical engagement between the UK (very large) and Australia (small but developing). Practical implications – The authors aim to equip medical leaders with the appropriate skill set to promote and enhance greater medical engagement. The focus of leaders in organisations should be in creating a culture that fosters and supports medical engagement. Social implications – This paper provides empowerment of medical professionals to have greater influence in the running of the organisation in which they deliver care. Originality/value – The paper contains, for the first time, linked performance data from the Care Quality Commission in the UK and from Australia with the new set of medical engagement findings.

Managing Nutrition

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Green
Keyword(s):  
Multidisciplinary Team ◽  
Fluid Management ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Human Nutrition ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Nursing Management ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Nutritional Care ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Care Quality Commission

This chapter addresses the essential nursing responsibility to ensure that adequate nutritional care is offered to all patients, whether in hospital or community-based settings. To provide appropriate nutritional care to patients or clients, nurses must have a good knowledge and understanding of the principles of human nutrition, and be able to deliver nutritional support that is informed by current clinical guidelines and up-to-date evidence, as well as to evaluate that care. Healthcare organizations have a duty to ensure that patients and clients receive high-quality nutritional care. The Council of Europe (2003) has published guidelines on food and nutritional care in hospitals, and a recent Europe-wide campaign has been launched to improve nutritional care in all types of care facility (Ljungqvist et al., 2010). A European strategy to address obesity has also been launched (Commission of the European Communities, 2007). In England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC, 2010), which regulates care settings, has set national standards concerning nutrition. The provision of high-quality nutritional care involves a range of services and requires a multidisciplinary team approach. As a nurse, your role within the multidisciplinary team is fundamental in ensuring the delivery of appropriate nutritional care. In the UK, this is clearly identified by the incorporation of ‘Nutrition and Fluid Management’ within the Essential Skills Clusters for pre-registration nursing education (Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2010). Human nutrition is the study of nutrients and their effect on health, and the processes by which individuals obtain nutrients and use them for growth, metabolism, and repair. The term ‘human nutrition’ therefore incorporates many aspects of behaviour and physiology. The way in which the body obtains, ingests, digests, absorbs, and metabolizes nutrients is described in core anatomy and physiology textbooks (for example, Marieb and Hoehn, 2010), and it is important that a good knowledge and understanding of these processes is gained before considering the nursing management of nutritional care. This chapter considers the principles of human nutrition that underpin the nursing management of nutritional care and focuses on the key nursing interventions that you should be able to provide with confidence. The amount and type of nutrients that a person obtains influences his or her ‘nutritional status’.

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