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CQC downgrades leadership at community healthcare services provider

By Lee Peart 17 November 2025

Leadership at community healthcare services provider Sirona care & health has been downgraded from good to requires improvement following an inspection by the CQC.

REGULATION

Mental health trust fined over £500k over patient death

By Lee Peart 17 November 2025

North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) has been fined more than £500,000 following the death of 22-year-old Alice Figueiredo at Goodmayes Hospital on 7 July 2015.

MATERNITY

Committee 'deeply concerned' over delay to maternity investigation

By Lee Peart 14 November 2025

The Health Committee has expressed deep concerns over reports the independent maternity and neonatal investigation led by Baroness Amos will not publish interim findings this year as previously exp...

DHSC

Top NHS trusts given new powers to improve care

By Liz Wells 13 November 2025

High-performing NHS trusts are to be given more independence to deliver faster, better and more personalised care.

CYBER SECURITY

Tough new laws to strengthen defences against cyber attacks on NHS

By Liz Wells 12 November 2025

Proposed new laws will strengthen cyber defences for essential public services, including the NHS.

MENTAL HEALTH

Care workers charged following mental health unit investigation

By Lee Peart 10 November 2025

Two care workers have been charged following an investigation into The Edenfield Centre in Prestwich, Greater Manchester.

REGULATION

Trust 'bringing in new ways of working' following inadequate rating

By Lee Peart 06 November 2025

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust has said it is ‘bringing in new ways of working’ after its leadership was rated inadequate by the CQC.

MATERNITY

Call for unannounced CQC investigations following maternity care allegations

By Lee Peart 06 November 2025

The Government has been called on to allow unannounced CQC investigations after a New Statesman and Channel 4 News investigation into maternity services at Oxford University NHS Hospitals Foundatio...

REGULATION

Requires improvement rating a 'catalyst for change', says trust

By Lee Peart 03 November 2025

St George’s University Hospital Trust has said a requires improvement CQC rating had been a ‘catalyst for change’ after the regulator found evidence of a ‘blame culture’.

GMC

GMC reviews key workplace and patient safety guidance

By Liz Wells 31 October 2025

The GMC has launched a review of key guidance to doctors, physician associates (PAs) and anaesthesia associates (AAs)

REGULATION

Mental health trust criticised following death of arrested man

By Lee Peart 28 October 2025

A coroner has criticised Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) for not running a Saturday service for arrested people after a man took his own life.