One of the largest providers of NHS services in Northamptonshire has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Outstanding regarding whether services were caring.
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (NHFT) provides a comprehensive range of physical, mental health and specialist services, many of which are provided in hospital, from a GP surgery, clinic or in the patient’s own homes.
The CQC carried out a comprehensive assessment of NHFT services in January of this year and rated the Trust overall as Good. This was an improvement on the last inspection in 2015 when the Trust was rated as Requires Improvement.
Devon Partnership NHS Trust ... has been awarded an overall rating of ‘good’ by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
The services inspected at Devon Partnership NHS Trust in December 2016 were rated as ‘good’ across the board in the five domains assessed by the CQC, these are Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-led. Among these the Secure Service, which is based at Langdon in Dawlish, received a rating of ‘outstanding’ for its responsiveness.
A south east London trust that specialises in mental health care and community services has been rated Good overall by the Care Quality Commission.
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust was re-inspected between 27 February and 1 March 2017, following an inspection in April 2016 when it was rated Requires Improvement.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today (Friday, June 2) published its report on the trust, which provides mental health services in Sussex and specialist community mental health services for children and young people in Hampshire and Kent and Medway. These include two adult social care services and primary medical services for HMP Lewes and HMP Ford.
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CQC calls for action to end missed opportunities to learn from patient deaths
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A national review by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that the NHS is missing opportunities to learn from patient deaths and that too many families are not being included or listened to when an investigation happens.
Responding to the Care Quality Commission’s re-inspection report, Carolyn Regan, Chief Executive at West London Mental Health NHS Trust said:
“This re-inspection report clearly highlights the huge range of improvements that our staff have worked tirelessly to put in place. From our new Thames Lodge medium secure unit to improvements in staff morale, reduction and review of restrictive practices and work to improve the assessment, monitoring and treatment of our patients’ physical health.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has upgraded the rating of Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust from Requires Improvement to Good following a comprehensive inspection by the CQC in September 2016
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has upgraded the rating of Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust from Requires Improvement to Good following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in October 2016.
Inspectors found many examples of excellent care – but they also found too much poor care and far too much variation in both quality and access across different services. This is particularly concerning given the increasing demand for mental health services, meaning that more people risk receiving care that is not good enough – or no care at all.
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust and East London NHS Foundation Trust have become the first two NHS mental health trusts in England to be awarded overall ratings of outstanding, as detailed in inspection reports published today (Thursday 1 September).
Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors have updated ratings for the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust following an inspection in November 2016, rating us as Good across all categories.
England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals has told Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust that, although it has made significant progress since CQC’s last inspection, it must make further improvements to the quality of its services following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the services provided by Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as Good following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in January and February.
Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides services across Northamptonshire to a population of 700,000. The trust offers a comprehensive range of physical, mental health and specialist services, many of which are provided in hospital, or from a GP surgery or clinic.
The trust was previously inspected in February 2015 when it was rated as Requires Improvement overall. Inspectors found considerable improvements had been made at the latest inspection where the care was rated as Good overall.
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NHS England has today published an independent report into the deaths of people with a learning disability or mental health problem at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, and highlighted a system-wide response.
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CQC is carrying out a review of how NHS trusts identify, report, investigate and learn from deaths of people using their services.
This follows a request from the Secretary of State for Health, which was part of the Government’s response to a report into the deaths of people with a learning disability or mental health problem in contact with Southern Health Foundation NHS foundation Trust.
CQC’s review will consider the quality of practice in relation to identifying, reporting and investigating the death of any person in contact with a health service managed by an NHS trust; whether the person is in hospital, receiving care in a community setting or living in their own home. The review will pay particular attention to how NHS trusts investigate and learn from deaths of people with a learning disability or mental health problem.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes the findings of a short-notice, focussed inspection of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, conducted over four days in January 2016.
Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) is embarking on a new era in their quality improvement journey.
BEH is teaming up with Haelo, the Innovation and Improvement Science Centre founded at Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, (SRFT) as part of their world-renowned quality improvement programme.
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The Care Quality Commission has told Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust that it must make significant improvements to its community-based mental health services for adults of working age, following its latest inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
The trust was rated as Good following an inspection in January 2017 but on CQC’s return inspectors found a number of improvements had been made resulting in it receiving an Outstanding rating.
A team of CQC inspectors visited Southern Health in June and July 2018 to check 10 mental health services and five of its community services. Inspectors also looked specifically at management and leadership to answer the key question: Is the trust well led?
As a result of this inspection the trust remains rated as Requires Improvement overall. However, Inspectors rated the trust as Good for the key questions: Are services caring and responsive and Requires Improvement for safety and effectiveness. Inspectors also rated the trust Requires Improvement for the key question: Is the trust well-led.
South West London and St George’s Mental Health Trust has been rated Good overall by the Care Quality Commission.
The trust which serves five London boroughs was rated Good for being safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the services run by Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust as Good, following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
CQC carried out an inspection at the trust during October and December 2018, overall the trust has maintained its rating of Good. In respect of safe, effectiveness, responsiveness and caring, the trust has been rated as Good. In respect of well led the trust have been rated as Outstanding. This is an improvement on their last inspection, March 2017, when safety was rated as Requires Improvement.
This report provides examples of the local changes that have been made to services so far and highlights the extensive work which is happening nationally in response to common themes raised through LeDeR reviews across the country.
In response to the data, Dr Paul Lelliott, deputy chief inspector of hospitals (lead for mental health), said:
“It is concerning to see that more people are being detained under the Mental Health Act than in previous years, when there is a national commitment to reduce this number.
Experts acknowledge that mental health problems may be more difficult to diagnose for people with learning disabilities. This is because it can be harder for the person to explain how they are feeling and what help they would like.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals told Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust that although the overall trust is doing well, it must make improvements to the safety of two core services after its latest inspection by the CQC.
The Care Quality Commission has rated wards for people with learning disabilities or autism provided by Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trusts as Outstanding following its latest inspection.
Acute wards and psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) at a south London NHS trust have improved since September 2015 but have still been rated Requires Improvement by the Care Quality Commission.
Today we have published a new report detailing the findings from our comprehensive inspections of specialist mental health services over the last three years.
South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) today (Thursday 16 June 2016) welcomed the publication of England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals report into their services following an intense, week-long inspection involving over 60 experts.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated seven of the ten services that were inspected as Good and three as requires improvement. In particular the CQC commended the Trust on the positive developments it has made in acute inpatient services, community learning disability services and child adolescent and mental health services.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the services provided by Coventry and Warwickshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust as Requires Improvement following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) today publishes its report following the inspection earlier this year of Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I); it has rated the Trust as ‘Requires improvement’ overall.
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England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as Requires Improvement following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Requires Improvement overall after an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in February 2016.
The Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust as Good after inspectors from the Care Quality Commission found that a number of its mental health services had improved.
The trust provides community health, mental health and specialised health services across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Milton Keynes, Berkshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
On its previous comprehensive inspection in September and October 2015, the trust had been rated as Requires Improvement overall. At the time the trust was told that it must make improvements in three core mental health services
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England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the services provided by Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as Requires Improvement following inspections by the Care Quality Commission.
CQC inspectors visited The Priory in January 2018 to check on the safety of patients receiving treatment for drug and alcohol use on West Wing. Previously the service was in breach of regulations around substance misuse and detoxification.
The Care Quality Commission has found further improvements Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
A team of CQC inspectors visited the trust during June and July 2018 to check four of the trusts ten mental health services and three of its community services. CQC also looked specifically at management and leadership to answer the key question: Is the trust well led?
A team of inspectors visited Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust in April and May. It was rated Good for safety, and Outstanding for caring, effectiveness, responsiveness and well-led. Overall, the trust rating has remained Outstanding - the same rating that it achieved when it was last inspected, in June 2016.
The NHS has today announced that an additional £5 million will fund reviews to improve care for people with a learning disability and committed to renewed national action to tackle serious conditions.
The world’s first programme to review the deaths of everyone with a learning disability is being expanded to speed up the spread of best practice.
Thousands more reviews will be carried out over the next 12 months, driving local improvements to help save and improve lives.
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The Care Quality Commission’s Chief Executive, Ian Trenholm and Dr Paul Lelliott, Deputy Chief Inspector (Mental Health) will give evidence to the UK Parliament Human Rights Committee in early June.
Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Shadow Secretary of State for Health, Heidi Alexander, in the House of Commons on the report of the investigation into the deaths at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Paul Lelliott, Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals (and lead for mental health) said:
"We welcome this report, which highlights the failure of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust to investigate and learn from the deaths of people who received care from their Learning Disability and Mental Health services. We will be working closely with NHS England, Monitor and the Health and Safety Executive to understanding the implications of its findings.
"We will also be undertaking a wider review into the investigation of deaths of people with Learning Disabilities in Mental Health and Acute trusts in different parts of the country. As part of this review, we will assess whether opportunities for prevention of death have been missed, for example by late diagnosis of physical health problems."
Dr Paul Lelliott, Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals (lead for mental health) has welcomed the publication of the independent Mental Health Taskforce's Mental Health Taskforce's Five Year Forward View for Mental Health.
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Minister of State for Community and Social Care, Alistair Burt, responded to an Urgent Question asked by Shadow Minister for Mental Health, Luciana Berger, in the House of Commons on the safety of care and services provided by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust on Tuesday 3 May 2016.
We're looking at how NHS acute, community healthcare and mental health trusts investigate deaths and learn from their investigations. We also want to assess whether opportunities to prevent deaths have been missed.
We have now completed our comprehensive inspection programme of all 56 mental health NHS trusts in England, following the development, testing and roll-out of our new model over the last three years.
Mental health wards for older people at Central and North West London NHS Trust have been rated as Good overall by the Care Quality Commission.
The wards at five different trust sites were rated as Good for being effective, caring, responsive and well-led. They were rated as Requires Improvement for being safe, after the inspection carried out at the end of January and beginning of February 2017.
The trust had made many improvements since the last CQC inspection in 2015 when caring, responsiveness and effectiveness were all rated as Requires Improvement.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has upgraded the overall rating of 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust from Requires Improvement to Good following an inspection in July this year.
The government must do more to coordinate its efforts to establish a culture of open-minded learning and investigation within the NHS in England, says the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in its report.
Between 30 April and 16 May 2018, a team of CQC inspectors visited the trust’s core services. Inspectors rated the care provided by staff to be Good regarding whether services were effective, caring, responsive and well-led and rated as Requires Improvement regarding whether services were safe.
What does it take to raise standards in a mental health trust? How can a trust that requires improvement become good or outstanding?
To help answer those questions we visited seven NHS mental health trusts that had achieved significant improvements in their ratings.
The service was rated as Requires Improvement for safety, Good for caring, effectiveness and responsiveness and Outstanding for well-led. As a result of this inspection, the trust’s overall rating remains unchanged as Good.
CQC last inspected these services in 2016 and rated them as Requires Improvement. Following that inspection, inspectors told the provider of the actions they must take in order to improve the service.
CQC re-inspected in July 2017 to check whether the required improvements had been made. The trust had only completed three of the eight actions we had told them they must take. We changed our rating of the service to Inadequate overall.
Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals, lead for mental health, Dr Paul Lelliott has written to specialist mental health NHS trusts in England to inform them of an upcoming workshop to explore what can be done to improve sexual safety on mental health wards and thank trusts for engaging with CQC on this work.
THE first-ever national guidance for NHS mental health trusts to ensure ways of improving services are learned from patients’ deaths is unveiled today.
The guidance, drawn up by the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCPsych), focuses on patients with severe mental illness and on four ‘red-flag’ scenarios, including where concerns have been raised by families and carers or where patients have experienced psychosis or had an eating disorder.
The Chief Inspector of Hospitals has told Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust that it must make further improvements following its latest inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
The prosecution follows an incident in May 2016 when Sophie Bennett, 19, took her own life in Lancaster Lodge in Richmond, west London.
By law, registered providers of health and social care services must take all reasonable steps and exercise all due diligence to ensure patients receive safe care and treatment.
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Our review of the way NHS trusts review and investigate deaths has found that opportunities to learn from patient deaths are being missed – and too many families are not being included or listened to when an investigation takes place.
The Care Quality Commission has told West London Mental Health NHS Trust that it must make significant improvements in the care of patients at Broadmoor Hospital in Berkshire.
CQC has issued a Warning Notice requiring the trust to improve care at the high security psychiatric hospital.
Inspectors visited Broadmoor in November 2016 to check the trust’s progress in meeting requirements that had been identified on a previous inspection. On the latest inspection, CQC found that the trust still did not have enough suitably qualified staff deployed to meet the needs of patients.
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