by Charlie Helps FRSA | Feb 26, 2025 | Articles, Board of Directors, CQC, Governance, NHS, NHS Quality, Quality Assurance, Strategy
Introduction: The NHS Improvement and Assessment Framework (IAF) for 2025/26 is set to replace the current NHS Oversight Framework, reflecting a new operating model for the NHS. It is being introduced in the context of significant pressures (elective backlogs, urgent...
by Charlie Helps FRSA | Feb 13, 2025 | Articles, Board of Directors, Clinical Governance, Governance, NHS, NHS Quality, Quality Assurance
It was a crisp morning in 1995 when Dr. Steve Bolsin walked into Bristol Royal Infirmary, his stomach knotted with anxiety. For months, he had been tracking the disturbing mortality rates in the hospital’s pediatric cardiac surgery unit. Children were dying at...