Three quarters of NHS hospitals are not safe enough says damning report

The home was rated as good for its caring after the CQC’s unannounced inspection on August 11 this year. “It is also to highlight poor care and poor leadership where we find it, to demand improvement and to take action to ensure that people receive safe, high quality care”.

Labour’s health spokesman, Heidi Alexander, said: ‘Jeremy Hunt can not keep ignoring these serious warnings about unsafe and understaffed hospitals.

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But it was rated as good for its effectiveness, care and responsiveness.

Commenting on the report, Miriam Deakin, head of policy at NHS Providers, said: “NHS providers take seriously the areas for improvement set out within the report, and we note the need for a sustained focus on patient safety which is underpinned by robust governance and a culture of learning and improvement”. That’s why hospital leaders need to be at the frontline with the clinicians delivering care to enable them to quickly make a difference.

In an alarming report, they said casualty cases had been left in makeshift huts outside A&E. Also, people with mental health issues and a few minority ethnic groups are more likely to receive poor care.

Home owner Adele Pattinson said: “The care has never been in question and staff have worked hard to improve the documentation”.

During 2014/15 the English health and care system has faced increasingly challenging circumstances. “The CQC have a role to play here, as do NHS England and NHS Improvement”.

Strong leadership, collaboration and having the right professional mix in place was key to turning services around.

David Behan, who heads the CQC, said care standards varied around the country.

The findings – contained in the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) annual report published today – are effectively a mid-term update of its new tougher style inspection regime.

It recognised that providers were being asked make savings and meet the complex needs of an ageing population with less money than before, as local authority funding dropped.

In addition to failing providers, 33% of the sector still required improvement.

The picture is worse for hospitals though; only 1 per cent were rated outstanding and 34 per cent good.

“In outstanding trusts, staff tend to feel well-supported from many different sources – for example, consultants taking the extra time to explain a particular situation to junior doctors or nurses, alongside training, assessment of competencies and feedback on performance”, noted the report.

A NURSING home in Steeton has been judged to be “good” by inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Inspectors at the watchdog have rated 13% of hospitals and 10% adult social care services as inadequate for safety, alongside 6% of GP practices and out-of-hours services.

In addition to failing providers, 33% of the sector still required improvement. She said residents want to stay at the home and in a letter to this newspaper, one staff member said they felt the “residents are very happy here” and that “they are cared for by very good carers”. However, it is worrying to see that there is still such variation in the quality of care being delivered.