Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We first inspected the Trust in September 2014 and rated the following core services as Good overall: adult long term conditions; community health inpatient services; community health services for children, young people and families; dental services; end of life care services; and learning disability services. We inspected the Trust in October 2018, we rated the trust as Requires Improvement overall, with safe and well-led rated as Requires Improvement, and effective, caring and responsive as Good. At the inspection in October 2018, we rated community inpatient services as Good overall and community services for children, young people and families as inadequate. In rating the Trust in October 2018, we took into account the previous ratings of the core services not inspected at that time. At the previous inspection in September 2019, we undertook a focused inspection of community health services for children, young people and families to see if they had made the necessary improvements we identified at the inspection in October 2018. We did not rate the service at that time. 

This inspection visit took place on 13 January – 26 February 2020.

We inspected four of the community services provided by this Trust as part of our continual checks on the safety and quality of healthcare services, at our least inspection we rated the Trust overall as requires improvement, and to look at those parts of the service that did not meet legal requirements. 

We did not inspect dental services at this inspection due to the lack of a specialist inspector to lead this core service.