New NHS QA (Quality Assurance) body hits setback
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The creation of the UK's Commission for Healthcare Audit and Inspection (CHAI) has suffered a major blow with the standing down of shadow chief inspector Peter Homa, at the request of shadow chairman Professor Sir Ian Kennedy. The news was greeted as a "serious setback" by Dame Deirdre Hine, chair of the Commission for Health Improvement (the so-called "old CHI"), which CHAI is due to replace as the overall regulator of the NHS in April 2004.