Care Quality Commission trial ratings

As a result of the Mid Staffs debacle the Care Quality Commission revamped its inspections making them longer, more detailed and with more clinical inspectors. They tested out the new regime in a number of hospitals including the Royal Surrey: see my blog of 18 December. The resulting report was generally good with some areas needing attention.

The CQC intends to publish ratings for all hospitals over the next year or so. So, from those 18 who were subject to the test inspections, the CQC sought volunteers to be trial rated. Royal Surrey agreed and the trial ratings have just been published. They are below.

   

	Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
		Safe	Effective	Caring	Responsive	Well Led	Overall
	Accident & Emergency	G	UA	G	G	G	G
	Medicine	RI	G	G	G	G	G
	Surgery	G	G	G	G	G	G
	Critical Care	G	G	G	G	G	G
	Maternity & Family Planning	G	G	O	G	O	G
	Paediatrics	G	G	G	O	G	G
	End of Life	G	G	G	G	G	G
	Outpatients	G	UA	G	RI	RI	RI
	Overall	G	G	G	G	G	G

 

The ratings are Outstanding (O), Good (G), Requires improvement (RI), Inadequate and Unassessed (UA).

The Royal surrey was thus overall rated Good for all aspects of care.

Outpatients was the main area requiring improvement with the Eye Clinic being particularly criticised (see some of my earlier blogs. A Business Case to rebuild the Eye Clinic is due to be presented to the Board at its next meeting and hopefully, at last, work will start to create a clinic for which the hospital can be proud.