20 NHS trusts up for inspection under new approach

The 20 NHS trusts listed face thorough scrutiny between April and June this year as part of the CQC’s new approach to hospital inspections.

These trusts will receive an official overall rating of outstanding, good, requires improvement or poor.

Each main service, such as maternity and accident and emergency, will also be rated in the same way, providing performance information at service and trust-level.

The trusts listed below have been selected for a range of reasons, with specialist trusts included for the first time. Some trusts inspected under the Bruce Keogh Review into high mortality rates are included for a follow-up inspection. Others are trusts judged to have a higher level of risk of providing poor care or are trusts hoping to secure foundation trust status. 

They are:

·       Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

·       Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

·       Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

·       Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

·       East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

·       George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

·       Isle Of Wight NHS Trust

·       Medway NHS Foundation Trust

·       North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

·       North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

·       North West London Hospitals NHS Trust

·       Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

·       Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

·       Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

·       Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

·       Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

·       Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

·       The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

·       United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

·       Wye Valley NHS Trust

Source: www.cqc.org.uk

A North Lincolnshire nursing home is fined £3,750 for failure to comply with CQC regulations

Gilby House Nursing Home failed to meet national CQC requirements and has been issued with fines of £3,750.

CQC has issued two fixed penalty notices, one to the provider, Prime Life Limited, and one to the former manager of Gilby House Nursing Home following their failure to notify the CQC within the required timescales about incidents affecting residents at the home.

CQC carried out an unannounced inspection at Gilby House Nursing Home on the 24 October 2013 as part of their scheduled programme of inspections for 2013/14.

After a review of care records, inspectors found that there had been a failure to inform CQC about the death of a person living at the home, and of a serious injury to another resident following a fall..

Due to the Home’s failure to meet legally required national standards, CQC has issued fixed penalty notices of £3,750.

For more details of the findings from the inspection in October 2013, read the full report here.

Source www.CQC.org.uk

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Mental Health and Community Health Providers are to be inspected from April

The CQC has announced the second group of mental health and community health providers that will be inspected as part of the new approach to inspecting specialist mental health services.

The providers that are due to be inspected vary in size, specialisms and regions across England as the CQC continue to develop the improved inspection model for mental health and community healthcare.

The providers include:

Community health providers

•   Cambridgeshire Community Health Services NHS Trust

•   Kent Community Health NHS Trust

•   Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust

•   Liverpool Community Health NHS Trust

Mental health providers

•   Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

•   Calderstones Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

•   Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust

•   Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust

•   Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Combined

•   Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

•   Bradford District Care Trust

•   Humber NHS Foundation Trust

Inspections will begin from April, and by December 2015, every NHS Trust will have been inspected.

Source: www.CQC.org.uk

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