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Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust child and adolescent mental health wards rated ‘good’
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated the child and adolescent mental health wards at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as ‘good’.
CQC undertook the inspection in June in response to a series of concerns raised and an alleged serious incident which occurred at the Berkshire Adolescent Unit three months prior to the inspection.
The inspection concentrated on the safe and well-led key questions and was rated as ‘requires improvement’ for being safe and ‘good’ for being well-led, responsive, caring and effective. The overall rating for services at the trust remains ‘good’.
Natasha Sloman, CQC Head of Hospital Inspection, said: “During this inspection we identified a number of key areas for improvement which the trust will need to address including establishing systems and processes to ensure that all safeguarding concerns are acted upon. We will continue to monitor the trust to check that these improvements are made.
“Aside from these issues, the trust has developed action plans to address issues relating to safeguarding concerns.
“The overall rating remains ‘good’.”
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