The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated the services provided by South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as Good following an inspection in May and June. This represents an improvement on their last inspection in March and April 2018 when the trust was rated as Requires Improvement.
At this latest inspection the service was rated as Requires Improvement for safe and Good for effective, caring, responsive and well led.
CQC inspected four complete core services:
- Acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units
- Specialist community mental health services for children and young people.
- Wards for older people with mental health problems.
- Community based mental health services for adults of working age.
These were selected due to their previous inspection rating or because our intelligence and ongoing monitoring identified that an inspection at this time was appropriate to help us understand the quality of the service provided. Inspectors also undertook a separate well led review to assess the quality of leadership and governance at trust level.
The overall rating for responsive improved from Requires Improvement to Good. This was partly due to inspectors being able to see that the service treated concerns and complaints seriously, investigated them and learned lessons from the results, and shared these with all staff.
Community-based mental health services for adults of working age improved from Requires Improvement to Good. Staff from different disciplines worked together as a team to benefit patients. They supported each other to make sure patients had no gaps in their care. The teams had effective working relationships with other relevant teams within the organisation and with relevant services outside the organisation.
Full details of the ratings, including ratings for each individual service are given in the report published online at: www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RXG
The Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals (and lead for Mental Health), Dr Paul Lelliott, said:
“This latest inspection represents good progress from the last inspection in March and April 2018. The trust had taken on board concerns we raised and worked hard to improve.
“The trust had recently completed the introduction of an electronic clinical record system. They were proud of the success of the delivery of this significant improvement programme which had strong oversight from both the quality and audit committees.
"The trust had a policy on restrictive practices which had recently been introduced. Each ward now had a reducing restrictive practice log/risk assessment which recorded the local restrictions in place, and what the risk assessment was with and without each restriction in place, what the decision was, and the plan for review of any restrictive practice. This had helped services identify and reduce restrictive practices across the inpatient wards.
“The responsive domain improved from Requires Improvement to Good. The service was easy to access, its referral criteria did not exclude patients who would have benefitted from care and it met the needs of all patients including those with a protected characteristic. The trust treated concerns and complaints seriously, investigated them and learned lessons from the results, and shared these with all staff.
“There are still areas that need attention but overall South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has performed well since the last inspection and I congratulate all concerned.”
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