Tag

Quality Accounts

7 recommendations 100% accepted

Tag overview

Government Response
Accepted (4)
Accepted in Part (3)
Recommendations in This Theme

recommendation across 1 inquiry

Across 1 inquiry

Tagged Recommendations

7 total
F246 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Comparable quality accounts

Department of Health/the NHS Commissioning Board/regulators should ensure that provider organisations publish in their annual quality accounts information in a common form to enable comparisons to be made between organisations, …

- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation (Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, DHSC, November 2013). …
Department of Health and…
F247 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Accountability for quality accounts

Healthcare providers should be required to lodge their quality accounts with all organisations commissioning services from them, Local Healthwatch, and all systems regulators.

- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation (Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, DHSC, November 2013). …
Healthcare providers
F248 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Accountability for quality accounts

Healthcare providers should be required to have their quality accounts independently audited. Auditors should be given a wider remit enabling them to use their professional judgement in examining the reliability …

- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation in principle (Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, DHSC, …
Healthcare providers
F249 Accepted in Part Mid Staffs Inquiry

Accountability for quality accounts

Each quality account should be accompanied by a declaration signed by all directors in office at the date of the account certifying that they believe the contents of the account …

- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation in part (Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, DHSC, …
Healthcare providers
F250 Accepted in Part Mid Staffs Inquiry

Accountability for quality accounts

It should be a criminal offence for a director to sign a declaration of belief that the contents of a quality account are true if it contains a misstatement of …

- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation (Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, DHSC, November 2013). …
Department of Health and…
F251 Accepted in Part Mid Staffs Inquiry

Regulatory oversight of quality accounts

The Care Quality Commission and/or Monitor should keep the accuracy, fairness and balance of quality accounts under review and should be enabled to require corrections to be issued where appropriate. …

- The government's response in "Hard Truths" (Cm 8777, November 2013) accepted this recommendation in principle (Hard Truths: the Journey to Putting Patients First, DHSC, …
CQC
F37 Accepted Mid Staffs Inquiry

Use of information about compliance by regulator from: Quality accounts

Trust Boards should provide, through quality accounts, and in a nationally consistent format, full and accurate information about their compliance with each standard which applies to them. To the extent …

- The National Health Service (Quality Accounts) Regulations 2010 (SI 2010/279) require NHS providers to publish annual quality accounts containing prescribed information about service quality, …
NHS Trusts