Royal Preston Hospital gets an unannounced visit from Care Quality Commission inspectors
Papers presented to an LTH board meeting on Thursday revealed that there was a “risk attached” to the delivery of a CQC recommendation from last year’s inspection which ordered the trust to “ensure that medical staffing levels, with the right qualifications and competencies, are safe for the numbers of patients in [A&E]”.
In its latest board report, “the absence of recurrent funding in the [emergency department]” was highlighted as the reason for the risk that the recommendation would not be met. While it was noted that an urgent and emergency care transformation programme aimed to reduce the funding gap, “it will not remove it entirely”, the document warned.
Board members were also told that there was still “not currently a resolution” to a separate recommendation from 2019 that medical staffing levels should be reviewed in order to ensure that they met national standards, which related specifically to a trauma team leader position within the emergency department.
Those recommendations were two of only three that remain wholly outstanding out of the 109 emanating from the CQC inspections undertaken at LTH in 2018, 2019 and last year. The third involved issues with the flow of patients through the hospital system.
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