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Should regulatory bodies the CQC and Monitor be merged into one regulator?
07-Feb-13
Robert Francis QC, chair of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Inquiry
YES
Among the key recommendations from the Francis Inquiry into care failings at the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust, published this week, is the proposal that England’s care sector regulator the Care Quality Commission (CGC), should be merged with Monitor,...
Dr Jennifer Dixon, Nuffield TrustNO
Nuffield Trust chief executive Dr Jennifer Dixon welcomed to the work undertaken by the Inquiry but announced caution at the proposal of a merger between the two bodies, commenting:
“There is much to commend in Robert Francis’s report and it is broadly...
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