Health trust told to improve patient services
November 27, 2009
An NHS health trust may be forced to take action if it cannot improve its performance according the regulator of foundation trusts, Monitor. Inspectors visiting the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in October say that they found medical equipment splattered with blood and A&E beds that were heavily soiled.
Executive chairman of Monitor, Dr William Moyes has said that he is concerned that the trust is not doing enough to put into place better services for its patients. He went on to say that Monitor would be using its powers to enforce change and that there was some concern over how effective the trust’s board were being. He went on to point out that the trust would now be very closely monitored and that if need be further action would be taken.
Alan Whittle, chief executive for the trust said that he was confident that the hospital’s cleaning contractor would make sure that the hospital’s standards would comply with Monitor’s guidelines on cleanliness by this coming Monday.
Concerns about the trust have been increased by the fact that Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals have an unusually high death rate amongst patients.
Director of the Patient’s Association, Katherine Murphy has pointed out that just after Care Quality Commission inspectors visited the trust and saw the state of its hygiene they submitted reports which gave the hospital thirteen out of a total of fourteen points for standards of cleanliness. Murphy says that the whole process was simply to tick the relevant boxes and has called for the whole board to resign.
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