AN IN-depth report assessing the country’s mental health services praises an Oxford health trust for its turnaround.
Yesterday the Care Quality Commission (CQC) published its inspection of all NHS services, giving the ‘most complete picture’ of the quality of mental health provision for people in England.
In the report Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust was a names case study of a trust to make drastic improvements.
It was one of 16 trusts in the country to have improved its overall rating.
Following a CQC inspection in September 2015, the trust was rated as ‘requires improvements’ and was given a long list of improvements in: acute wards and psychiatric intensive care units, long stay and rehabilitation wards, and community services.
But by the summer of 2016, the CQC rated the trust as ‘good’ overall.
The report said: “We found there was better management of risks to patients from potential ligature anchor points, improved assessment and management of the physical health of patients, and the introduction of a fuller schedule of ward activities.
“In community-based mental health services, staff had improved the quality of clinical assessments and care plans.”
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