30th Nov 09
Action taken on health trust
by Natasha Redman
Action is to be taken to force a scandal-hit health trust to make improvements in spite of the chief executive’s claims that things are getting better.
Inspectors for the Care Quality Commission (CQC) have found blood-spattered equipment and soiled mattresses as Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The trust also reports an unusually high death rate among patients which has already provoked concern from the organisation.
The CQC asked the regulator of foundation trusts, Monitor, to initiate action amongst concerns that improvements are smply not happening fast enough. Cynthia Bower, chief executive, said the trust had taken its concerns seriously but added their confidence in the management’s ability to deliver on commitments and to turn around the situation have been severely dented.
Executive chairman of Monitor, Dr William Moyes, said kit was using powers to demand immediate action to ensure the delivery of rapid improvement of services.
Improvements in patient care had been too slow to date, adding that Monitor was concerned about the effectiveness of the trust’s board.
The action has come despite chief executive Alan Whittle’s confidence that the trust would meet its improvement deadline on Monday, saying that he was confident the actions that the hospital was taking will return them to compliance by November 30th.
Inspectors from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) visited the trust earlier this month and found blood-spattered equipment, blood stains on the floors and curtains and badly soiled mattresses in the A&E department, and issued the trust a warning on October 20.
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