NHS patient care monitoring affected by abortion clinic inspections

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NHS patient care monitoring affected by abortion clinic inspections

Care Quality Commission head’s letter of complaint against actions by health secretary escalates row over Tory policyThe healthcare regulator was forced to divert resources away from monitoring patient care in the NHS after Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, ordered unannounced inspections of more than 300 abortion clinics in England, it has emerged. In a tersely worded letter to the Department of Health, Dame Jo Williams, chair of the Care Quality Commission, wrote to officials saying the “fulfilment of [the health secretary's] request has clearly impacted on planned regulatory activity by the CQC”.