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30
Jan
Every week, health and social care produce a familiar mix of stories: crisis, reform, innovation, and accountability. Some dominate the news cycle. Others quietly reshape how care is delivered on the ground. What matters is not which headline travels furthest, but what patterns emerge when we read them together. This...
Read more >Frontline testimony published by the Royal College of Nursing in January 2026 has brought renewed attention to the growing use of corridor care across the NHS. Practices once seen as temporary responses to pressure are increasingly described as routine, raising serious concerns about patient safety, dignity, and staff wellbeing. The evidence highlights corridor care as a systemic issue rooted in workforce shortages, limited capacity, delayed discharges, and long-standing governance gaps rather than individual clinical failure. Alongside public and professional concern, the lack of transparent national data and the impact of moral injury on staff underline the need for coordinated leadership, honest accountability, and sustained system-wide action to prevent unsafe practices from becoming normalised.
16
Jan
Over the past year, a few issues have starkly exposed the strain on the UK healthcare system, as the growing reliance on so-called “corridor care” has shown. Once framed as an exceptional response to extreme pressure, it is now increasingly described as routine practice across parts of the National Health...
Read more >CQC ratings reveal the deeper systems that shape safety, culture and patient experience. In this blog, Dr Richard Dune examines why hospitals fall into an inadequate rating, what the CQC looks for when judging leadership and safety, and how services like Hull Royal Infirmary’s emergency department have begun turning fragile progress into meaningful improvement. He explores the structural issues that drive failure, from weak governance and unsafe staffing to poor IPC and medicines management, and shows how leadership, culture change and quality improvement can transform care. This analysis outlines what health and care leaders must prioritise to rebuild trust, strengthen compliance and move confidently from inadequate to good.
28
Nov
When the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rates a hospital service “Inadequate”, it is more than a regulatory judgement, but a signal of systemic risk. For organisations, it can trigger significant reputational damage, operational pressures, emergency improvement plans, and intense scrutiny. For staff, it can be deeply demoralising. And for patients...
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21
Oct
Yesterday’s announcement of an independent enquiry into maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) marks another difficult moment of reflection for the NHS, and for those who work tirelessly within it. In this blog, Dr Richard Dune explores what this enquiry means for healthcare leadership, governance,...
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10
Oct
The health and social care sector is changing fast, and with it, the expectations placed on providers. Between the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Single Assessment Framework, Ofsted inspection regimes, and complex legal obligations, today’s organisations face more scrutiny than ever before. That’s why The Mandatory Training Group and Tann Law...
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Nurse education: Beyond statutory and mandatory training
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Are these week’s NHS headlines exposing a deeper system failure?
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Corridor care is no longer a crisis response, it’s a governance failure
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RCN testimony on corridor care reveals deep NHS pressures
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Why Donna Ockenden says maternity care needs action, not inquiry
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