As we have noted before on the Clinical Waste Discussion Forum, healthcare regulators the CQC and its Scottish equivalent frequently record issues with clinical and sharps waste handling, transport, and […]
Workers at a Clevedon care home left ‘clinical waste’ outside residents’ rooms, according to its latest Care Quality Commission (CQC) report. What are the issues? We were not present at […]
A private ambulance service which was carrying defibrillators without batteries, using equipment two years out of date, and leaving open clinical waste bags in vehicles, has been banned from working […]
Yorkshire Ambulance Service has been told that it must improve the quality of some of its services following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission. The general cleanliness of the […]
There has been much publicity concerning the enforced closure by the CQC of the Merok Park nursing home in Surrey. It is reported that conditions were little short of appalling, but […]