Royal Shrewsbury Hospital meeting key care standards
Thursday 9th June 2011, 12:08PM BST.
The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital is meeting key standards ensuring older patients are treated with dignity and that their nutritional needs are being met, the NHS watchdog revealed.
But the Care Quality Commission has today called for some improvements to be made to ensure standards are maintained.
And regional health bosses have also ordered the trust, which runs the Royal Shrewsbury, to improve its performance after failing to meet a number of patient care targets
Inspectors from the CQC found that privacy is respected at the hospital and the care provided is dignified for the majority of patients, most of the time.
But while most patients are involved in making decisions about their care, this is not consistent.
Vicky Morris, chief nurse and director of quality and safety at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust, said: “I have asked matrons across the trust to discuss this report with their teams so that we all have the opportunity to learn and improve.”
Meanwhile strategic health authority, NHS West Midlands, is sending a performance manager to the trust to oversee an improvement plan. Among the areas where the trust is performing below expectation are cancer referral times, A&E waiting times, and assessment of DVT risk.
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elderly patients care needs being met by RSH Rubbish!
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the place needs knocking down and rebuilding in my opinion
the nurses do their best but you cant give people good care in a 60′s concrete tower block honestly its not fit for purpose you cant keep it clean and it makes people feel ill its so drab honestly there are council tower blocks in birmingham which are better quality
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ive only ever popped in to A&E and i must say i was suprised to be seen immediately and it was a pretty good experience really
growing up in the 80′s under the tories all my experiences of hospitals had been like 8 hour waits to see a nurse with a broken arm and being on a waiting list for 4 years for a cruciate ligament operation,
so i was pleasantly suprised to see that some things seem to have gotten better now
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Never thought we would be so dissapointed and upset and ultimately angry with our health service. The care my husbands Father has received at Shrewsbury Hospital since being admitted in A and E is nothing less than disgusting. Yes we have received an acknowledgement that they have made mistakes and we will be making a formal complaint, however, if you have elderly realatives in RSH be aware there are definitely problems in the care of those who are unable to look out for themselves.
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