{"id":489,"date":"2019-04-05T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T10:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/medicenter\/?p=489"},"modified":"2019-05-01T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T13:17:29","slug":"cqc-maintains-outstanding-rating-for-caring-services-at-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/2019\/04\/05\/cqc-maintains-outstanding-rating-for-caring-services-at-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"CQC maintains \u2018outstanding\u2019 rating for caring services at Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"
The overall rating for Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust remains the same at \u2018requires improvement\u2019 following a CQC inspection last autumn.<\/strong><\/p>\n The inspection of some of the Trust\u2019s services took place during the period 4th<\/sup>\u00a0September to 11th<\/sup>\u00a0October last year, with publication of the findings today which reveal the overall rating for the Trust remains the same.<\/p>\n The Trust has committed to continuing to make improvements and has already made changes to ensure that patients receive high quality care across all parts of the Trust. As well as making recommendations, the CQC report notes a number of outstanding practices with the overall \u2018outstanding\u2019 rating for being caring.<\/p>\n In urgent and emergency care across both City and Sandwell hospitals, the services were rated as \u2018requires improvement\u2019 with an \u2018outstanding\u2019 rating for the critical care service.<\/p>\n Good practice that the inspectors singled out for praise included:<\/p>\n Toby Lewis Chief Executive commented: \u201cWe are pleased that no safety concerns remain in our ratings table.\u00a0 Obviously our work to achieve a Trust-wide Good rating continues, and our community services for both children and adults reach that mark already.\u00a0 We know that for acute services we have more room for improvement. \u201cWe continue to make improvements in the services we provide to our patients and we will:<\/p>\n \u201cWe will work with the Care Quality Commission, and with our partners within the STP, to adopt best practice across our Trust, and I look forward to welcoming the inspectors in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The overall rating for Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust remains at \u2018requires improvement\u2019 following a CQC inspection last autumn. With caring rated ‘outstanding’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4315,"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/4315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heathstreethealth.nhs.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\u201cMost pleasingly, we have maintained our Outstanding rating for Caring.\u00a0 This is a tribute to the hard work and compassion of our teams across the organisation.
\u201cSince the CQC inspectors visited the Trust last year we have made a number of improvements including:<\/p>\n\n
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