Staff suitability and fitness
Failure to ensure that employed staff possess good character, necessary qualifications, skills, experience, and physical and mental fitness for their roles.
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Inquiry recommendation
83match
P2-74 - HTA require suitable qualified staff with enforcement
The Human Tissue Authority, and/or the new inspectorate, should require the organisations it licenses to ensure that any individual who provides care to deceased people is suitably qualified, experienced and supervised. The regulatory regime should set minimum standards on the qualifications likely to be considered sufficient to demonstrate 'suitability' for particular roles or levels of responsibility. Failure to...
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terms: staff, suitability
Inquiry recommendation
78match
FR-7 - Registration of Care Home Staff
The Inquiry recommends (as originally stated in its Interim Report, dated April 2018) that the UK government introduces arrangements for the registration of staff working in care roles in children's homes, including secure children's homes. Registration should be with an independent body charged with setting and maintaining standards of training, conduct and continuing professional development, and with the...
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terms: fitnes, staff
Inquiry recommendation
78match
24 - Registration of children's home care staff
The Chair and Panel recommend that the Department for Education introduces arrangements for the registration of staff working in care roles in children's homes. Registration should be with an independent body charged with setting and maintaining standards of training, conduct and continuing professional development, and with the power to enforce these through fitness to practise procedures. The Chair...
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terms: fitnes, staff
HSSIB recommendation
73match
Suitability of equipment and technology used for continuous fetal heart rate monitoring
HSIB recommends that NHS England and NHS Improvement amends the ‘Saving Babies’ Lives care bundle version 2’ to enhance the role of the ‘fetal monitoring lead’ to include, training and competency checks of all maternity staff on the use and functionality of cardiotocograph (CTG) equipment.
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terms: staff, suitability
PFD report
69match
John Rogers
The health board's current systems are inadequate to ensure staff possess appropriate and up-to-date qualifications and training for their required work.
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terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
69match
FENN-96 - Allocate physically suitable staff to roles, ensuring station safety balance
London Underground shall only allocate staff to a role for which they are physically suitable. In the cause of safety, a proper balance must be ensured at each station.
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terms: staff
Committee recommendation
69match
#26 - 4th Report - Housing Conditions in the Private Rented Sector
We are concerned that many local authorities do not have enough suitability skilled staff to robustly regulate and enforce standards in their private rented markets. If not addressed this problem threatens to undermine the steps the government is taking to raise standards and the effectiveness of other reforms introduced by the Renters’ Rights Act. (Conclusion, Paragraph 113)
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terms: staff, suitability
CQC action
69match
Lovat House Residential Care
The provider must ensure staff are suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced to carry out their roles effectively.
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terms: staff
HMICFRS recommendation
69match
FRS 2018-19 CoC Recommendations: Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: Devon and Somerset FRS cannot assure itself that operational members of staff meet the minimum fitness requirements to perform their role. Recommendation: By 28 February 2020, the service should provide an action plan that details how they will address this issue.
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terms: fitnes, staff
HMICFRS recommendation
69match
FRS 2023-25 CoC Recommendations: Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Cause of concern: Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service can’t assure itself that its operational members of staff meet the minimum fitness requirements to perform their roles. Recommendation: Within 28 days, the service should provide an action plan that details how it intends to make sure all staff meet the minimum fitness requirements.
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terms: fitnes, staff
IMB recommendation
68match
The Mount (2022)
On staffing levels and new recruits, the Prison Service needs to better appraise applicants as to their suitability for the role. A lot of effort and money is wasted when trainees leave because they cannot cope with the environment. Numbers recruited should not be the only measure. The number that finish their training who are still employed 12...
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terms: staff, suitability
Inquiry recommendation
66match
27 - Professional registration for custodial care staff
As the Inquiry set out in its Interim Report, professional registration of the workforce in settings responsible for the care of vulnerable children complements regulation of institutions by a separate, independent regulator. The government has agreed in principle that professional regulation of staff in children's homes in England could provide an effective additional means of protecting children. It...
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terms: staff
Committee recommendation
66match
#7 - Amend prison staff recruitment to grant Governors ultimate decision and mandate face-to-face interviews.
Governors must have the ultimate decision on the recruitment of staff who work in their prison. HMPPS must amend its recruitment process to ensure that all frontline staff, including prison officers, undergo a mandatory face-to-face interview process led by Governors or a member of the senior leadership team. (Recommendation, Paragraph 37)
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terms: staff
PFD report
65match
Neil Carter
There were repeated failures in basic nursing observations, chronic inadequate staffing and skill mix, and deliberate falsification of nursing records, compounded by management's failure to address reported issues.
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terms: staff
Committee recommendation
65match
#187 - Amend HMPPS recruitment to mandate face-to-face interviews by local governors for frontline staff
HMPPS must amend its recruitment process to ensure that all frontline staff, including prison officers, undergo a mandatory face-to-face interview process led by local governors. This critical step addresses the identified deficiency in governors not having direct involvement in the recruitment process. This lack of involvement limits the scrutiny necessary to prevent individuals recruited solely to facilitate criminal...
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Committee recommendation
65match
#16 - Second Report: Merging success: Bringing together the FCO and DFID
It is also important that the alignment in aid and diplomacy is not used as an excuse to roll back the reforms that have ensured the UK’s IMF and World Bank positions are still staffed by individuals with experience of multilateral aid and major project management, whose skills will now be housed in the FCDO. (Paragraph 37) 18...
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terms: staff
CQC action
65match
Ellesmere Port Hospital
The trust must implement an effective system to ensure that medical, nursing and midwifery staff have the skills, knowledge, experience, and appraisal to care for and meet the needs of patients within their service area.
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terms: staff
CQC action
65match
Cotton Exchange
The provider must have processes in place to ensure that staff are suitably qualified, competent, skilled and experienced to provide a safe service.
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terms: staff
Inquiry recommendation
64match
F23 - Responsibility for regulating and monitoring compliance
The measures formulated by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence should include measures not only of clinical outcomes, but of the suitability and competence of staff, and the culture of organisations. The standard procedures and practice should include evidence-based tools for establishing what each service is likely to require as a minimum in terms of staff...
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terms: staff, suitability
CQC action
64match
Montagu Hospital, Mexborough
Thetrustmustensuretheyhaveenoughstaffwiththerightqualifications,skills,training,andexperiencetokeepwomensafefromavoidableharmandtoprovidetherightcareandtreatment.Regulation18(12)(a)
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terms: staff
CQC action
64match
Walfinch West Suffolk
The provider must ensure recruitment checks are completed on all new staff to check their suitability or competence to work with vulnerable people prior to commencing employment.
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terms: staff, suitability
Inquiry recommendation
62match
R9 - GP certification of fitness for NHS employment
We recommend that consideration be given to how General Practitioners might, with the candidate's consent, be asked to certify that there is nothing in the medical history of a candidate for employment in the National Health Service which would make them unsuitable for their chosen occupation (para 5.5.19).
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terms: fitnes
HSSIB recommendation
62match
Workforce and patient safety: temporary staff - integration into healthcare providers — HSSIB
National bodies can support patient safety by developing credentialing systems which enable staff to verify their competencies when moving between NHS organisations.
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terms: staff
PFD report
61match
Steven Rogers
A doctor discharged a patient without seeing them, indicating a fundamental lack of understanding of discharge importance, and staff erroneously omitted long-acting insulin during the patient's hospital stay.
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terms: staff
PFD report
61match
Arthur Hughes
A lack of protocol for assessing locum staff's practical skills and managerial reluctance to thoroughly check references created risks that locums might perform tasks beyond their capabilities.
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terms: staff
PFD report
61match
Ian Taylor
Concerns were raised about the police officer's fitness to serve, specifically regarding their assessment and handling of a vulnerable individual who expressed suicidal ideation and required physical assistance.
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terms: fitnes
PFD report
61match
Lee Stammers
Poor documentation, communication, and system failures led to urgent medical tests being missed or inaccurately recorded. Unidentified temporary staff could also cancel tests without accountability, risking patient harm.
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terms: staff
PFD report
61match
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There were widespread failures in the quality, accuracy, and auditing of patient observations, including staff distraction during crucial monitoring. Concerns also persist regarding the door-locking system's reliability and staff guidance for its failure.
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terms: staff
PFD report
61match
Valerie Gibson
Staff confusion regarding medication dispensing and administration, inadequate checking of patient possessions, and inconsistent electronic record-keeping posed risks of over/under medication and patient harm.
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terms: staff
CQC action
61match
William Harvey Hospital
The trust should ensure staff receive appropriate ongoing or periodic supervision in their role to make sure competence is maintained. 18(2)(a): Staffing
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terms: staff
CQC action
61match
Royal Victoria Infirmary
The service must ensure that there are sufficient numbers of suitably competent, skilled, medical staff to meet minimum staffing levels and meet the care and treatment needs of service users.
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terms: staff
CQC action
61match
Leicester Royal Infirmary
The trust must ensure there are always enough suitably qualified and skilled staff on duty.
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terms: staff
CQC action
61match
Cheshire Hair Transplant Clinic Limited
The service must ensure that robust recruitment processes are in place to ensure staff are ‘fit and proper’ to fulfil their role.
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terms: staff
CQC action
60match
Continuity Healthcare Services Private Limited
The provider did not adequately assess and protect people against risks by doing all that was practicable to identify and mitigate such risks. The provider did not ensure staff had adequate qualifications, competence and skills to provide safe care. The provider did not ensure the safe management of medicines.
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terms: staff
CQC action
60match
Chandos Lodge Nursing Home
The provider did not always implement procedures to ensure staff were of a good character prior to them working with adults at risk.
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terms: staff
CQC action
60match
Verve Health
The service must ensure staff including those who work at the service but are not directly employed have the right skills and training to meet the needs of the service users in their care and that they receive a full induction to the service before they start work, ongoing training and that staff receive regular appraisals, supervision and...
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terms: staff
CQC action
60match
Attwood's Manor Care Home
We recommend that the service makes improvements in this area and can demonstrate that references and other documents are in place before staff start. We also recommend the home demonstrates how they have assessed the candidate's suitability for employment in line with the job specification.
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terms: staff, suitability
CQC action
60match
Woodview House Nursing Home
There was a lack of oversight in place to ensure staff were competent and skilled in their role/.
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terms: staff
CQC action
60match
The Withins
There was a failure to ensure staff were suitably qualified, competent and experienced to enable them to meet the needs of the people using the service at all times.
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terms: staff
Scottish FAI
60match
Marlene Patricia Wightman
That all nursing staff recruited in the Hospital to care for post-operative breast surgery patients should either (i) have sufficient prior experience in caring for surgical patients as to be familiar with the nature and extent of the particular procedures which have been carried out on these patients, have knowledge of the detailed requirements of their care, be...
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terms: staff
IMB recommendation
60match
Swinfen Hall (2024)
Why can staff who are completing their residential course prior to appointment to their prison not have their offer of employment withdrawn if, during the course or on completion, it is clear they do not have the capacity or suitability to take on the role of prison officer?
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terms: staff, suitability
CQC action
59match
Rosglen Residential Home
The provider must ensure recruitment procedures operate effectively in a way to ensure persons employed are of good character and have the qualifications, competence, skills and experience necessary for the work to be performed.
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PFD report
57match
Jack William Payton
Control room staff's judgement and handling of the matter were negatively affected by excessive working hours and heavy caseloads, raising concerns about operational capacity.
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terms: staff
PFD report
57match
Lloyd Butler
A pervasive lack of professionalism, leadership, and appropriate training in the custody suite led to an unacceptable culture and inadequate control over staff behavior with vulnerable detainees.
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terms: staff
PFD report
57match
Simon Tree
The unit's new airlock system has security flaws, allowing patients to 'tailgate' visitors and leave, with inadequate monitoring by reception staff.
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terms: staff
PFD report
57match
Mary Hyden
A consultant neurologist is working excessive hours, including 7-day weeks and 14-hour shifts, which significantly increases the potential for medical errors and risks to patient safety.
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terms: staff
PFD report
57match
Jakub Moczyk
Inadequate pre-fight medical checks for boxers and medics failing to assess a boxer's fitness to continue after vomiting, relying instead on a non-medically qualified referee/trainer.
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terms: fitnes
PFD report
57match
Cyril Anderton
Medical staff failed to attempt CPR due to a critical error, consulting and acting upon the wrong set of patient medical notes.
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terms: staff
PFD report
57match
Alex Blake
Multiple nursing staff provided unreliable and potentially false evidence regarding patient observations, with documented discrepancies between reported checks and the patient's actual status, raising serious concerns about care quality.
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terms: staff
PFD report
57match
Macloud Nyeruke
Hospital failed to assess an agency support worker's immune status, assigning them to infectious wards without adequate PPE training, increasing infection risk to staff and patients. Nursing agencies failed to share health vulnerabilities.
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terms: staff