Nursing Times has reported that a third of hospitals at which Care Quality Commission inspectors raised concerns about care of the elderly received no follow-up visit.

This is despite the regulator telling MPs last month that it had “gone back to” “all” the trusts visited last year as part of a wave of reviews into dignity and nutrition standards for older people, carried out at 100 hospitals. CQC data seen by Nursing Times reveals 18 of the 55 trusts in which concerns were found received no follow-up inspection.

Instead, trusts were asked to supply “action plans” or were issued with “improvement actions”. In some instances, the CQC received “additional assurance” from a trust’s strategic health authority or primary care trust that improvements were underway.

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