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Admin (Retired)
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- Type 1
Local authorities have been urged to step up their scrutiny of NHS providers, as a survey revealed funding for such checks has dwindled.
The call for strengthening council probes of healthcare services came in new guidance by the Department of Health.
This suggested local health scrutiny committees should actively seek out information about service quality.
“Health scrutiny has a legitimate role in proactively seeking information about the performance of local health services and institutions in challenging the information provided to it… and in testing this information by drawing on different sources of intelligence,” it stated.
http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/jo...ed-to-toughen-health-scrutiny/5072681.article
The call for strengthening council probes of healthcare services came in new guidance by the Department of Health.
This suggested local health scrutiny committees should actively seek out information about service quality.
“Health scrutiny has a legitimate role in proactively seeking information about the performance of local health services and institutions in challenging the information provided to it… and in testing this information by drawing on different sources of intelligence,” it stated.
http://www.lgcplus.com/briefings/jo...ed-to-toughen-health-scrutiny/5072681.article