PM's call for chief inspector of hospitals on UK wards is welcomed by health trust chief executive for northern Lincolnshire
The chief executive of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust has welcomed PM David Cameron's call to put a new chief inspector of hospitals onto wards.
The PM is expected to create the role today, in reaction to a devastating report into shock failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Trust.
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Karen Jackson, chief executive of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
The new inspector will have powers to check hospitals and reprimand failing doctors in a bid to bring back "humanity" as a key principle.
Karen Jackson, chief executive of Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, said: "Anything that supports the National Health Service in delivering quality services for patients is welcome.
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"Inspections help us learn and assure us of the quality of our services. We currently receive inspections from the Care Quality Commission and it has reported that our quality of care is good. We would of course always take action if we received any recommendations around our services.
"Regulation is only one part of ensuring we provide good services and alone it will not secure high quality of care for all. It is also vital that we continue to focus on the patient experience, as feedback from the people who come through our doors helps us improve the quality of our services."
3 Comments
by 3Speech
Thursday, February 07 2013, 11:28PM
“The last thing we need is ANOTHER highly-paid civil servant. Cameron should stop lying about the money that is going into the NHS and admit that the cuts he is imposing on Trusts are directly affecting the care they are able to provide. Labour can take no high ground on this issue either - this happened on their watch and is the harrowing result of their onslaught of target-driven, bean-counting policies - at the detriment of patient care. And Cameron's idea of nurses' pay being related to some spurious 'compassion test' is the most ridiculous, and sinister, proposal I have ever heard.”
by des22
Thursday, February 07 2013, 11:41AM
“Odd isn't it? In the days when people say the NHS used to care, there was no need for inspectors.”
by Malcolm_Ex
Wednesday, February 06 2013, 2:26PM
“Definitely needed for our trust's hospitals. The massively high mortality rate we have should be raising alarms. Let's hope we don't have another Mid Staffordshire situation here.”