The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today (Wednesday, 17 June) published a report on Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust following an inspection.
CQC visited the trust between 27 January and 11 March 2020 as part of regular checks on the quality and safety of healthcare services.
As a result of the inspection, the trust maintained its rating of Good overall as well as for whether services are effective, responsive and well-led. The rating in the key question of are services safe improved to Good from its previous rating of Requires Improvement and the trust is rated as Outstanding in the key question of whether services are caring.
The inspection looked at the trust’s child and adolescent mental health wards, wards for people with learning disabilities or autism, community mental health services for people with learning disabilities or autism, mental health crisis services and health-based places of safety, and community health services for adults.
Safety improved across the services inspectors visited. There was a positive culture across the trust which helped protect patients from avoidable harm, staff assessed risks well and acted to ensure people received safe care. Staff skilled at involving and engaging young people in their care, provided emotional support to people and their families and helped them understand their conditions.
In addition, a report regarding a focused inspection of the trust’s adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder service, which took place on 27 January is published today. The service forms part of the trust’s community based mental health service for adults of working age core service.
This inspection does not affect the trust’s overall rating.