Health Trust is safe, caring and effective

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BRIDGEWATER Community Healthcare NHS Trust – the body which provides community and specialist healthcare to Warrington and neighbouring areas – has been judged to be safe, caring, effective and well led, following an inspection.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given a mainly positive report on the work of the Trust.
But they have noted that in some areas, staff vacancies are impacting on service delivery.
The Trust provides community and specialist healthcare to people living in Warrington, Ashton, Leigh, Wigan, Halton and St Helens. It also provides community dental services to these and other areas and health services at three prisons.
Some 3,400 staff are employed by the Trust which has around 11,000 patient contacts a day and 2.5 million a year across all its community services.
CQC held focus group meetings with a range of staff – district nurses, health visitors and allied health professionals.
They observed how people were being cared for, talked with carers and/or family members and reviewed personal care or treatment records of patients.
They judged that services were safe and there was evidence of improvements through learning and through sharing of lessons learned. However this was often within individual teams and not across clinical services.
Trust chief executive Dr Kate Fallon (pictured) said: “We at the Trust are delighted with this very positive report about our services from the CQC.
“We are pleased that after such a thorough inspection our services were deemed to be safe, caring, effective, well led and responsive with a clear focus on quality.
“We are also extremely proud that one of the recurring themes of the CQC’s report is that patients are overwhelmingly positive about the quality of the services we provide and that the CQC reported positively on the care and compassion provided by our staff.
“As we expected, the report identifies some specific areas where we need to make improvements to systems and processes and we are already making progress towards delivering these. We welcome the insight provided by the CQC. The issues highlighted are related to specific areas of administration and we are confident that none have resulted in any harm to patients, their families or carers.”


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