Safety continues to be the Care Quality Commission’s biggest concern across all the services it inspects, the Commission’s latest annual analysis of the quality of health and adult social care in England, The state of healthcare and adult social care in England 2014/15, reveals.
The Commission said: “We have rated over one in 10 hospitals (13%), and a similar proportion of adult social care providers (10%), as ‘inadequate’ for safety. In primary medical services, 6% of those we rated were inadequate for safety. Our analysis highlights a range of factors affecting safety across all of the sectors. These include a failure to adequately investigate and learn from incidents and errors so they don’t happen again, concerns around the adequacy of staffing numbers and staffing mix, failure to undertake safety checks, and staff not being able to raise concerns.”
Up until 31 May 2015, the CQC had rated over 150 services across England, including acute hospitals, mental health Trusts, ambulance and community Trusts. Of these, two (1%) were rated ‘outstanding’, 51 (34%) ‘good’, 85 (57%) ‘required improvement’, and 12 (8%) were rated ‘inadequate’. The overall ratings show a lower proportion of ‘good’ and ‘outstanding’ hospital ratings (38%), compared with primary care and adult social care ratings.
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