Hospital trust receives glowing report (From The Argus)

Hospital trust receives glowing report

10:48am Saturday 19th November 2011 in News By Ruth Lumley

A hospital trust has received a glowing report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Inspectors have published a report into the care they viewed at St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, which comes under the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, during an unannounced visit in October.

The report says they found no areas of concern at all and quoted patients describing the hospital as “the best I have ever been in”. Worthing and Southlands hospitals also received good reports from the CQC.

St Richard's complied with national standards, including providing patients with safe and appropriate care, treating patients with respect, keeping the environment clean, having enough staff, having well trained staff and keeping patients safe from the threat of abuse.

Trust Chief Executive Marianne Griffiths said: “When you run a hospitals trust employing 6,500 people and treating hundreds of thousands of people a year you can never be complacent because things can always go wrong, but this report is yet more evidence that on the whole our staff do an absolutely terrific job for our patients.”