FMD Alert
The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) 2011/62/EU introduced new requirements to enhance the security of the European supply chain. Where the MHRA has identified risks to the security of the supply chain, FMD Alerts are issued.
The MHRA are recalling certain batches of two medicines to a patient level - Neupro 4mg/24hr patches and Vimpat 100mg tablets.
For more information on this FMD alert see MHRA website at link below
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory-agency
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Principles for community empowerment
Community empowerment is relevant to all parts of the public sector and is an area of increasing importance given developing legislation and policies.
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Barnahus standards
We were asked by the Scottish Government to work in partnership with Healthcare Improvement Scotland to develop standards to introduce the Barnahus concept to Scotland as part of our commitment to improving how the justice system serves children, young people and their families.
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We Asked, You Said, We Did
We Asked
We were required to review our previous corporate plan, with a view to developing a new corporate plan for the next three years, to set out its vision, objectives and priorities. We asked to hear your views on this and, in particular, on two specific questions in relation to the draft plan. We asked if the draft corporate plan captured the key priorities for the Care Inspectorate and if there was anything else that stakeholders wished to see in the plan.
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Fostering and Adoption 2018–19 a statistical bulletin
Fostering and adoption services in Scotland are continuing to perform well, the Care Inspectorate has said.
A report published today shows that 90% of Fostering services and 95% of adoption services were evaluated ‘good’ or better by inspectors.
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