The government is being urged to regulate healthcare at big events like concerts and music festivals to prevent 'unsafe care, abuse and deaths'.
Joyce Frederick, Care Quality Commission (CQC) director of policy and strategy, revealed at the continuing Manchester Arena Inquiry it had been lobbying the Department of Health and Social Care to bring the 'unregulated' sector under its sphere, to enable it to take action against poor providers.
The damning second report of inquiry chairman Sir John Saunders heaped criticism on Arena operator SMG and its contracted medical services provider at the time, Emergency Training UK (ETUK). He said their relationship didn't operate as it should have, adding: "In relation to healthcare, inadequate consideration was given to the welfare of the event-goers."
