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Aintree NHS Foundation Trust 'requires improvements'
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as ‘requires improvement’ following a ‘deterioration in the quality of services’.
The trust, which was previously rated as good, was found to have concerns with its emergency care and on wards, highlighting how urgent and emergency services did not always have enough staff to ‘keep people safe from avoidable harm and to provide the right care and treatment’.
Ellen Armistead, deputy chief inspector of hospitals at the CQC, said a number of improvements are needed after discovering that ‘environments that weren't fit for purpose’ were affecting patients’ privacy, while many patients were ‘spending more than 12 hours in the department’.
The trust said it will use the report's findings as the basis for its improvement work.
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