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England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals has published his first report on the quality of services provided by Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
University Hospital Aintree has been rated as Good following an inspection in March under the new inspection regime introduced by the Care Quality Commission to provide a much more detailed picture of care in hospitals than ever before. A full copy of the report can be found here.
An inspection team of 30 people which included doctors, nurses and midwives, and hospital managers, trained members of the public, a variety of specialists, CQC inspectors and analysts spent three days at the hospital in March. They also visited the hospital unannounced.
Within the hospital, inspectors rated the Surgical care , Medical care, End of life care, Accident and Emergency, Outpatients and Intensive Care as Good.
Following a previous inspection CQC had issued a warning notice requiring the trust to improve its procedures to monitor service provision. The inspection team found that there had been significant improvement. While the management of risks had recently been strengthened to provide the board with better assurance of performance, the trust still needs to do more work to analyse the data on patient mortality in order to address a data discrepancy.
Inspectors found there had been
improvements in staff engagement. Staff were proud to work for the trust and
felt supported by managers and the board.
CQC’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals, Professor Sir Mike Richards,
said:
“In the past CQC has taken action against Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust because we weren't satisfied that it was properly monitoring and assessing the quality of its services.
It is encouraging to report that the trust has made significant progress to address those concerns - although there is still some work to do for the trust to get to the bottom of the discrepancies in its mortality data,. I note that concerns which had been raised over infection control and A&E waiting times had also been addressed by the time of this inspection.
The trust has clearly has worked hard to secure the improvements and that's a positive message for both patients and staff. We know that the hospital's senior team have been working to improve staff morale and the challenge facing the executive team now is to sustain the improvements that have been made, while continuing to and develop the service. “
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