Following an article published today by the Health Service Journal which reported the Care Quality Commission has assumed standards in the health and social care sectors could deteriorate in 2018-19, Dr Nick Scriven, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said:
“It is good to hear such frank views from the regulator but we need to see a reaction from the Department of Health and Social Care in terms of a response.
“We need a plan to turn this trend around without it being a stick to beat staff with – even the secretary of state has acknowledged they can’t work any harder.”