The NHS care watchdog is abandoning its discredited way of inspecting hospitals
and instead plans to use much larger teams of inspectors, including
patients, to do in-depth investigations "lasting more than a week".
The
first chief inspector of hospitals for the NHS, Sir Mike Richards, who
is based at the Care Quality Commission and is a cancer specialist, said
the new system of scrutinising standards of care would be robust and
transparent and help restore public confidence in hospitals after care
scandals such as Mid Staffordshire and Morecambe Bay.
Under the
scheme, inspection teams are to be larger, with between 20 and 30
people, including five or six doctors and the same number of nurses,
managers, allied health professionals and patients (classed as "experts
by experience").
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