St Mary's Hospital

The Trust has been in special measures for quality since 2017 and in special measures for finance since March 2019. The Trust is currently rated as requires improvement, with an inadequate rating for Use of Resources. The acute services at St Mary’s Hospital are currently rated overall as requires improvement. 

Following the last comprehensive inspection of the Trust in May and June 2019, the Trust was served a warning notice under Section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 requiring them to make significant improvements by 31 December 2019. 

We carried out an unannounced follow up inspection of the Trust in February 2020 and we were on site at St Mary’s Hospital on 3 and 4 February 2020. 

During this focused inspection, we looked at all the issues raised in the warning notice. We did not re-rate the service because we did not inspect any of the full key questions (safe, effective, caring, responsive, well led) of the acute services. Therefore, the rating for St Mary’s Hospital and the Isle of Wight NHS trust remains at requires improvement. 

We will continue to monitor the performance of this service and will inspect it again as part of our ongoing next phase NHS programme. 

We found that staff at this hospital had started to address the concerns raised at the inspection in June 2019. Requirements for significant improvement set out in the warning notice following the May and June 2019 inspection under Section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 were met. While there was evidence of significant improvement, there were still some areas the provider needed to improve.