Daily Archives: 10/07/2011

MP says CQC has failed to protect service-users

The care and health watchdog has failed in its duty to protect service-users and has become a “bureaucratic nightmare”, an MP has told its under-fire chair.
Labour MP Rosie Cooper told Dame Jo Williams, who chairs the Care Quality Commission, that her organisation needed to ensure “light years improvement” to its inspection work.
Dame Jo was giving [...]

Artist seeks home for award-winning Resistance

A leading disabled film-maker is seeking a permanent home for her award-winning installation about the killing of hundreds of thousands of disabled people in Nazi Germany.
Liz Crow’s Resistance: which way the future? has received critical and popular acclaim and has been shown at venues across the country, as well as at the renowned Kennedy Center [...]