England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals has published his first report on the quality of services provided by Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
16 May 2014 03:29 PM
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. “
Ends
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