UK: Abortion clinics will have to display official rating from Care Quality Commission

Abortion clinics will have to display official rating from Care Quality Commission

Alexandra Richards
Jan 3, 2018

Abortion clinics will have to publicly display an official rating from the Care Quality Commission.

The Department of Health is extending the CQC’s current rating system to include a new group of health services.

All healthcare organisations in England offering regulated care will now be rated by the commission and awarded marks which they will have to display on their websites or on their premises.

Continued at source: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/health/abortion-clinics-will-have-to-display-official-rating-from-care-quality-commission-a3730711.html

03.01.2018

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UK: Abortion clinics set to face Ofsted-style inspections and be rated after a string of scandals

Abortion clinics set to face Ofsted-style inspections and be rated after a string of scandals

Ministers said private providers will now be rated in a bid to end the 'lottery of poor practice'
By Nick McDermott, Health Editor
14th September 2017

A health watchdog has been given new powers to clampdown on shoddy care.

Ministers said private providers will now be rated in a bid to end the “lottery of poor practice”.

Investigators last year uncovered 2,600 examples of poor practice at Marie Stopes International.

Continued at source: The Sun: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4461375/abortion-clinics-set-to-face-ofsted-style-inspections-and-be-rated-after-a-string-of-scandals/

14.09.2017