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Wye Valley NHS Trust out of special measures
Wye Valley NHS Trust, which runs Hereford County Hospital, has been rated as ‘requiring improvement’, two years after entering special measures.
The trust has been supported by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust since the beginning of the year, after the 2014 Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection criticised medical care and A&E, claiming the trust had ‘no clear leadership’ and ‘regularly breached’ national targets.
In an outcome that has been welcomed as ‘great news for residents’, the CQC has highlighted a number of areas where the trust still needs to improve, including reporting practices and the time it took for patients to get surgery.
Sir Mike Richards, CQC's chief inspector of hospitals, said: “There clearly remain areas where further work is needed, in particular with regard to the trust's responsiveness in A&E, bed occupancy concerns and referral to treatment times, but we found considerable and positive change had taken place."
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