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By Joe MacIntyre What matters most during a CQC inspection? A CQC inspection is not just a test of operational performance. It’s also a test of how your organisation manages reputational risk under scrutiny. While inspections focus on safety, quality, and leadership, the outcome also shapes how your organisation is perceived by regulators, commissioners, staff, and the public. […]
The Mandelson vetting affair has become one of the most instructive, and damaging, examples of crisis communications mismanagement in recent political memory. Not because the underlying facts are necessarily fatal to the government, but because of how catastrophically the communications have been handled. The story, in brief: Peter Mandelson was appointed UK Ambassador to Washington in early 2025, […]
By Lottie Newell When things go wrong, organisations rarely stumble in private. Issues that begin as operational, regulatory or cultural failures quickly become reputational crises, played out in public and judged at speed. That is why boards need to think about risk through a reputation lens, not just an operational one. The UK Corporate Governance […]