England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals has told Surrey and Borders Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust that it must make improvements to some services following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
Overall, the trust has been rated as Requires Improvement for providing safe and well led services, and rated Good for being caring, effective and responsive to people’s needs.
We are pleased to publish our latest annual report and accounts today (Thursday 20 July), which sets out what we have achieved in 2015/16 and the further work that lies ahead to help people get the safe, high-quality and compassionate care they deserve.
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.
Health Education England's e-Learning for Healthcare team (HEE e-LfH) has developed a new online resource for healthcare staff to equip them with the necessary knowledge and confidence to raise public interest concerns.
CQC are looking at how NHS acute, community healthcare and mental health trusts investigate deaths and learn from their investigations. They also want to assess whether opportunities to prevent deaths have been missed.
They have launched a new Webform for members of the public to share their experience of how an NHS trust has reviewed or investigated a death. This feedback will directly inform their review.
Safe staffing decisions should be made locally and not be governed by ratios [brief news item]. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Routine outcome monitoring of CMHDs using PROMs was not shown conclusively to be helpful in analyses combining study results, either in terms of improving patient symptom outcomes (across 12 studies), or in changing the duration of treatment for their conditions (across seven studies).
The average person remembers less than half of the information provided by healthcare professionals during a medical visit.1 The situation is arguably most challenging for patients leaving the hospital, where acute illness, sleep deprivation and delirium add to the challenge of learning and memory.2 ,3 Indeed, research has shown that after hospital discharge, only 59.6% of patients are able to accurately describe their discharge diagnoses, and 43.9% can accurately recall follow-up appointments.4 Approximately one-third of patients have difficulty understanding their discharge medication regimen.5 To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
Draft guidance from NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) outlines what the best palliative care for children looks like.
It emphasises the need for infants, children and young people to be treated as individuals and highlights the importance of children and their families being involved in decisions about care.
Come and visit our first pop-up library at Severn Fields, Shrewsbury 19th July 11.00am-3.00pm. Join the library, borrow and return books, get help finding information and evidence, set up an Athens account, find out what the library can do for you and your team.
In March we were visited by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) who inspected our services. They have now published their reports. We welcome this independent view of our services as an opportunity to continue improving our services for local people.
Without exception, all of our services were found to be caring and the reports highlight how our staff treat people with kindness, care and compassion. Across our 14 service line reports, more than 70% of the individual ratings are ‘Good’ (green).
NHS Improvement has launched its single oversight framework consultation.
The framework sets out how the regulator will identify where trusts may benefit from, or require, support in key areas of performance.
We say the new framework is significant for all providers and marks a shift in the regulator's approach
The Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust as Requires Improvement overall after its inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).