The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust ‘good’ in four out of five quality measurements – caring, responsive, well-led, effective and ‘requiring improvement’ for safe.
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.
Wast Hills House is an independent hospital providing assessment, treatment and care to people with a complex learning disability and autism. Wast Hills House is owned by Oakview Estates Limited, trading as The Danshell Group.
Inspectors found staff were caring and compassionate and people were being provided with safe, responsive, caring, effective and well-led care. A full inspection report has been published on our website: read the 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.
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.
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Between 12 March and 12 April 2018, a team of CQC inspectors visited ten of 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units (PICUs) at West London Mental Health NHS Trust have made good progress in some key areas. The trust had undertaken considerable work to better manage patient flow. This had resolved the issue of patients receiving care on one ward while sleeping on another ward.