St Mary’s Hospital has shown improvement in several key areas according to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) – but there is still work to be done.
At the start of February, inspectors carried out a focused visit at St Mary’s in Newport to look at urgent and emergency services, medical care and surgery delivered by the Isle of Wight NHS Trust.
At this most recent inspection, the trust showed it had worked hard and met the requirements of the warning notice to deliver care safely.
- Nursing records were fully found to be completed for patients on the coronary care unit.
- Most staff followed the trust’s processes to identify, monitor and act upon patients at risk of deterioration.
- Stroke patients were being cared for by staff with the right skills, training and experience.
- Improvements had been made to promote better outcomes for stroke patients.
The CQC now rates St Mary’s as being ‘good’ for care, although a ‘requires improvement’ rating still applies to whether services are safe, effective, responsive and well-led.
However, the inspection has highlighted a number of key areas that St Mary’s must take action on to improve:
• Must ensure staff complete patients’ records including medical records and patient fluid balance records (Urgent/emergency services & Medical care)
• Must ensure where risks to patients are identified, actions are taken to lessen the risk (Medical care)
• Must ensure staff always complete all patient risk assessments (Surgery)
• Must ensure staff have access to up-to-date and accurate information on patients’ care and treatment (Surgery)
Maggie Oldham, Chief Executive at Isle of Wight NHS Trust, has said:
“I am very proud of how well our teams have responded to the challenges of dealing with coronavirus and I am also hugely grateful for their efforts to continue to improve the services that we provide.
Article continues below this advertisement “It is important that we don’t lose sight of our ambition to provide the very best possible healthcare and the latest report from the Care Quality Commission shows that we are still making progress.
“Thank you to everyone involved and to our Island community for their continued support.”
The full report is to be published on the CQC’s website at https://www.cqc.org.uk/provider/R1F/reports.
Yes very well done to them all for doing there chosen work
Same as all other workers nationwide in what ever profession you are in Be it builders shop workers plumbers and so on
I’ve unfortunately been admitted three times since November having never been unwell. Every dept, every ward, every clinic that has seen me have had amazing staff and my care has been outstanding. I just don’t see how that care isn’t represented on the Hospital tables. Stats are rubbishing a hospital that is so much better than it knows.