File photo dated 01/10/13 of Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt who will tell delegates at the National Children and Adults Services (NCAS) conference there is a collective "national shame" in ignoring the emotional needs of people in care homes or isolated in their own homes. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday October 18, 2013. He will also speak about cases of abuse in care homes, saying there is a need to apply rigorous, unflinching standards towards the regulation of care in both the private and public sector. See PA story HEALTH Elderly. Photo credit should read: Dave Thompson/PA Wire
PA
25 October 2013
Jeremy Hunt’s favourite hospital has reacted angrily after being ranked in the second-worst category in "patient risk" league tables.
Bosses at the Royal Free in Hampstead said the Care Quality Commission ratings lacked “common sense”.
The hospital was yesterday one of 44 across England said to be at increased risk of providing poor care. This is embarrassing for the Health Secretary as it comes a month after he asked its managers to help turn around the failing Basildon hospital, and as he seeks to appoint the Royal Free’s chairman, Dominic Dodd, to head the foundation trust watchdog, Monitor.
The ratings placed Queen’s in Romford, King George’s in Ilford, Homerton and Croydon in the lowest category.
