The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is today publishing a report following an inspection at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust.
Inspectors visited the trust from 10 to 12 March 2020, assessing care and treatment received by patients.
On 16 March 2020, CQC suspended all routine inspections to support and reduce pressure on health and social care services during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, this inspection could not be completed in the usual way. This report includes findings from six completed service-level inspections: urgent and emergency care, medical care, surgery, maternity, children and young people and community health inpatients. A well-led inspection which considers the leadership, management and governance of the organisation – was not completed.
Inspectors found community health inpatient services which had previously been rated Requires Improvement were now rated Good. Services for children and young people remained Good, maternity services kept their Requires Improvement rating. Urgent and emergency services, medical care and surgery which had all been previously rated as Good were now rated Requires Improvement.
CQC is only able to update trust’s overall ratings when a well-led inspection is completed. Therefore, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust’s overall ratings are retained from CQC’s previous comprehensive inspection report, published in 2018, when it was rated Good overall. The trust remains Outstanding for being caring Good for being effective, responsive and well-led and Requires Improvement for being safe.
Full details of the ratings are given in the published report.