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Health watchdog lifts Derriford's formal warning after considerable improvements

Inspectors from the public health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), have re-inspected theatres at Derriford Hospital and are satisfied that surgical safety has considerably improved.

The re-inspection follows the formal warning handed to Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust in July after an investigation in April into eight serious patient safety incidents at the flagship hospital...

Trust given formal warning after investigation into Derriford Hospital standards

The healthcare watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), has issued a formal warning to Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust after an investigation into eight serious patient safety incidents in the past year at Derriford Hospital.

A planned inspection by the CQC was brought forward following a series of 'never events' - serious patient incidents so called because they should never happen...