TWO years of “hard work and determination” by staff at Warrington and Halton Hospitals has resulted in ‘GOOD’ overall rating from the Care Quality Commission following two previous inspections which said improvements were required.
Hospital critical care has been rated “Outstanding.”
The report published today (24th July 2019), shows significant improvement across all five key lines of enquiry (Safe, Caring, Responsive, Effective and Well Led) with the CQC awarding ‘GOOD’ to each element for both hospitals.
Inspections in 2015 and 2017 had highlighted areas which required improvement.
The Trust is continuing with its journey to be outstanding and builds on a strong platform, with the CQC inspectors identifying numerous areas of ‘outstanding practice’ including: The Smart Heart programme run by consultant cardiologist Dr Ahmed Farag with primary school children, the Frailty Unit and the selection by NHS England of the Consultant Nurse as their ‘expert advisor’: the widely adopted facilities and practices for those living with dementia, Critical Care’s outreach practice and the Maternity Bereavement service, which won the Butterfly Award Best Hospital Bereavement Team.
Mel Pickup
Mel Pickup, Chief Executive said: “This CQC GOOD rating demonstrates a significant shift in the standards of we deliver for our patients in just 20 months since our last inspection was published.
“Following the last inspection we changed our mission to focus on not only achieving a GOOD rating but to take the Trust to OUTSTANDING for our patients, our communities and each other.
“We took great pleasure today in renaming the improvement programme, which has for the last 30 months being called ‘Getting to Good, Moving to Outstanding’ to simply ‘Moving to Outstanding’. We are already working on the areas in the report that the inspectors felt still had room for improvement.’
“Our 4.4K staff seized the opportunity to ‘Be the Change’ and today’s report is a testament to their sheer determination that nothing but GOOD was what we wanted for our patients.
“This is the culmination of two year’s exceptional effort, hard work and determination by WHH Staff and Volunteers. Today belongs to them.”
The full report can be read here www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RWW/Reports
