Archived: East Riding Community Hospital

We carried out a follow up inspection in October 2013 to assess the progress the Trust had made towards meeting compliance with the regulations.

We found that great improvements had been made in patient care and monitoring, supported by improved staff training, knowledge and clinical skills. We also found that governance systems on the ward had developed and were used effectively to assess and monitor the quality of care and treatment patients experienced.

It must be noted that there were nine patients on the ward at the time of our visit and the capping of patient numbers to twelve meant that any development work with staff training and governance would have to be further tested once patient numbers increased.

We would also like to note that during this inspection we gathered new information from the Trust Neighbourhood Community Team staff: district nurses, community nurses, occupational therapists and physiotherapists, working out of the East Riding Community Hospital. This information has not been used within this report but has been analysed separately and will inform the next inspection to be held at the Trust headquarters location, Willerby Hill. We found that a staff grievance mentioned in our last inspection report had been investigated by the Trust and had been concluded with no case being found.

Generally staff understood safeguarding practices and procedures and understood they had a responsibility to protect patients.

Management of medicines was satisfactory, the premises were safe and staff were safely recruited.

There were concerns regarding some staff competency on the thirty bedded ward and within the Neighbourhood Community Team.

We identified areas of concern in respect of serious untoward incidents, and subsequent learning and actions by The Trust. This potentially put people at risk of harm.