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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital

3rd January 2017
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
We carried out an announced inspection between 5th and 7th September 2016, and an unannounced insection on 21st September 2016.This is the third inspection of this hospital. This inspection was specifically designed to test the requirement for the continued application of special measures to the trust. Prior to inspection we risk assessed all servi [...]
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Kent & Canterbury Hospital

3rd January 2017
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
We carried out an announced inspection between 5th and 7th September 2016, and an unannounced insection on 21st September 2016.This is the third inspection of this hospital. This inspection was specifically designed to test the requirement for the continued application of special measures to the trust. Prior to inspection we risk assessed all servi [...]
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East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

3rd January 2017
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
We carried out an announced inspection between 6th and 8th September 2016. This is the third inspection of this trust. The first in March 2014 led to an overall rating of inadequate and as a consequence the trust was placed into special measures by Monitor. A supporting performance management structure has been placed around the trust including the [...]
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The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

3rd January 2017
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
The hospital was established in 1817 and became a foundation trust in 2007, which means the trust has more freedom in how they run their hospital and in meeting the demands of them. The hospital is situated in the south of Birmingham.The hospital is a tertiary specialist orthopaedic centre treating the local population and people from across the UK [...]
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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

3rd January 2017
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
At the last comprehensive inspection of the trust in January 2015 we identified a number of areas where improvements were needed across a number of core services, with five of the 11 core services rated as requires improvement. At this inspection four core services were rated as requires improvement. There were ongoing concerns in the acute wards f [...]
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Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

8th December 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
Systems and guidance were either not in place, not suficiently embedded, or not operated efectively to ensure the delivery of safe and quality care. Incidents were not reported to the National Reporting and Learning System in a timely way and systems were not robust enough to ensure that incidents were reported to the trust from some services, incl [...]
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North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

8th December 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
We were concerned about the safety of some of the ward environments. Many of these were issues that we had raised at our last inspection. Staf did not always assess risks on wards or manage risk from ligature points well; including on wards with poor lines of sight. The Christopher unit and older people wards that admitted both men and women did no [...]
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St George's Hospital (Tooting)

7th November 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
St George’s Hospital, Tooting, is one of two acute hospital locations of St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which we visited during this inspection. The other registered hospital location we visited was Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton. St George’s Hospital has 995 beds. The hospital is in the London Borough of Wandswor [...]
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St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

7th November 2016
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Grading Explained: Inadequate
Report Excerpt:
This trust had been rated good overall in a 2014 CQC comprehensive inspection. This most recent inadequate rating reflects a marked deterioration in the safety and quality of some of the trust services as well as to its overall governance and leadership. Whilst we have rated the trust as inadequate overall, we noted good care in several areas and s [...]
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Birmingham Women's NHS Foundation Trust

7th November 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
We carried out an announced inspection visit from 12 to 14 April 2016 and three unannounced visits on 15, 25 and 27 April 2016. This inspection was part of our comprehensive inspection programme. We held focus groups with a range of staff in the hospital, including consultants, midwives, nurses, junior doctors, student midwives and nurses, administ [...]
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital

7th November 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
Queen Elizabeth Hospital is part of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.  The trust was formed on 1 October 2013. Queen Elizabeth Hospital was part of South London Healthcare NHS Trust which was placed into administration in July 2012.  Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust  provides acute and community services for more than 526,000 people living in [...]
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BMI The Cavell Hospital

7th November 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
BMI The Cavell Hospital is a 27 bed private hospital in Enfield and was acquired from Nuffield Health in 2008. The hospital comprises two main buildings; the original hospital (Cavell building) dates from 1976 and accommodates the consulting rooms, physiotherapy department and endoscopy suite whilst the main building (Trent building) dates from 199 [...]
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Hereford Hospital

7th November 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
We inspected Hereford Hospital as part of our programme to re-visit acute trusts that are in special measures.We held focus groups, drop in sessions and held a stall within the reception area of the hospital to capture feedback from patients, family members and representatives visiting the hospital. We spoke with a range of staff, including black a [...]
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Wye Valley NHS Trust

7th November 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
We carried out this inspection as part of our comprehensive programme of re-visiting trusts which are in special measures. We undertook an announced inspection from 5 to 8 July 2016 and unannounced inspections on 11, 17 and 18 July 2016. Overall, we rated Hereford Hospital as requires improvement with three of the five questions we ask with safe, e [...]
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Spire Hartswood Hospital

11th October 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
We inspected this hospital as part of our independent hospital inspection programme. This was the first comprehensive inspection of Spire Hartswood Hospital. The inspection was conducted using the Care Quality Commission’s comprehensive inspection methodology. We carried out an announced inspection of Spire Hartswood Hospital on 3 May 2016. We al [...]
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Leeds General Infirmary

6th October 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
We carried out a follow up inspection of the trust from 10 to 13 May 2016 in response to the previous inspection as part of our comprehensive inspection programme in March 2014. We also undertook an unannounced inspection on 23 May 2016 to follow up on concerns identified during the announced visit. Focussed inspections do not look across a whole s [...]
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University Hospital Aintree

6th October 2016
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Grading Explained: Good
Report Excerpt:
We inspected the hospital during the afernoon and evening of 1 April 2016. We visited the following areas: • Accident and emergency (A&E); • Observation Unit ; • Acute medical unit; • Wards 30 and 31 (which included the frailty unit); • The bereavement centre to review records. We found that urgent and emergency care services required imp [...]
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North East London NHS Foundation Trust

6th October 2016
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We rated North East London NHS Foundation Trust as requires improvement for the following reasons: The child and adolescent mental health wards were a particular of concern, where we identified concerns in relation to a number of areas including stafing, restrictive practices, lack of incident reporting and lack of recovery orientated care planning [...]
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Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

6th October 2016
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Grading Explained: Good
Report Excerpt:
We carried out a follow up inspection of the trust from 10 to 13 May 2016 in response to the previous inspection as part of our comprehensive inspection programme in March 2014. We also undertook an unannounced inspection on 23 May 2016 to follow up on concerns identified during the announced visit. Overall, we rated the trust as good. We rated saf [...]
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Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

6th October 2016
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Grading Explained: Requires Improvement
Report Excerpt:
Following our inspection, CQC has issued the trust with a Section 29a warning notice. NHS Improvement launched an investigation into Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in 2015, in respect of governance concerns identified from the judgement of an Employment Tribunal, and concerns raised by other third parties. In February 2016, based on evi [...]
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