Marie Stopes clinics have suspended surgical abortions using anaesthetic or sedation for under-age girls and vulnerable women after following an unannounced inspection by Care Quality Commission inspectors who found patients could be at risk.
The CQC said that the 250 women a week who were booked in for terminations would be sent elsewhere to ‘make sure they were protected from potential harm’.
It appears the anesthesia might be the issue. Or it’s clumsy wording.
After a spate of deaths in the 80’s with dentists bungling anaesthesia, the rules on who, how and when anaesthesia can be used changed.
I imagine that this is a case of Stopes’ safeguarding processes around anaesthesia being found deficient
The CQC is obsessed with tick-box record-keeping, so my guess is that some of the paper trail was deemed inadequate. This might be evidence of some serious procedural failure, or it might simply be a bureaucratic regulator flexing its muscles.
Maybe their coat-hanger was too blunt.
May be lack of staff on hand with the proper qualifications in case something goes wrong with the anaesthetic?
@dearieme… maybe the gin being used was only 75% proof instead of 40% abv..
@Theophrastus, August 20, 2016 at 8:52 am
The CQC is obsessed with tick-box record-keeping, so my guess is that some of the paper trail was deemed inadequate. This might be evidence of some serious procedural failure, or it might simply be a bureaucratic regulator flexing its muscles.
+1
My bold and opinion.
Cameron was advised by GMC and GDC to abolish Brown’s CQC before he became PM in 2010. Cameron, as always, showed them his x-ray showing no spine.
Perhaps May will abolish the useless duplication of regulation enforcement quango.