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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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West London NHS Trust has been rated Good overall by the Care Quality Commission.
The trust, which was formerly known as West London Mental Health Trust, was rated Outstanding for being caring, Good for being effective, responsive and well-led, and Requires Improvement for being safe, during the inspection which took place on dates between August and October 2018.
West London NHS Trust provides mental health and an increasing range of community healthcare services in west London and Berkshire.
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.
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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 South London and Maudsley (SLaM) NHS Foundation Trust has been rated Good overall by the Care Quality Commission.
SLaM was rated Good for being effective, caring, responsive and well-led. It was rated Requires Improvement for being safe, following the inspection in July and August 2018.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has rated the services provided by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust as Good following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
England's Chief Inspector of Hospitals has found a number of improvements at Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust but says more work is needed following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission.
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.
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?
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