A mental and community health services trust in Yorkshire has again been rated Requires Improvement overall by the Care Quality Commission.
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust was rated Requires Improvement for being safe, effective and well-led, Good for responsive and caring, following an inspection that took place between February and April 2019. Since their last inspection in November there has been no change to the overall rating of the trust.
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS provider of mental health, community health and specialist learning disability services. They support people of all ages who live in the Bradford, Airedale, Craven and Wakefield areas.
They also work with people from other areas when needed. The trust serves a population of over 580,000 people across Bradford and Airedale and over 335,000 people across Wakefield. The population is amongst the most diverse in the country with over 100 languages spoken.
Due to the concerns found during the inspection of the trust’s acute inpatient mental health wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care unit, CQC used its powers to take immediate enforcement action. CQC inspectors issued the trust with a Section 29A warning notice, advising the trust that our findings indicated a need for significant improvement in the quality of healthcare.
CQC will revisit these services to check that appropriate action has been taken and that quality of care has improved. It was encouraging to note that by the time of the well-led review the trust had already taken significant action to address the issues identified in the warning notice.
Some of the features from the inspection included:
- The trust did not have effective systems in place to investigate incidents within appropriate timescales to identify learning from incidents and make improvements
- The arrangements for governance and performance management did not always operate effectively. Whilst there had been a recent review of governance arrangements the plans to change these were in the early stages and were not embedded at the time of the inspection
- CQC rated community health services as outstanding overall for caring. Inspectors rated community end of life care services as outstanding overall
- Two of the trust’s services are rated as outstanding for caring, and 11 were rated as good.
You can read the inspection report in full when it is published on CQC’s website at: www.cqc.org.uk/provider/TAD
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