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Significant improvement found at Colchester Hospital
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has reported that Colchester Hospital, which has been in special measures since 2013, has significantly improved.
The inspectorate rated the trust as as ‘requires improvement’ overall, and as ‘good’ for whether services are effective, caring and well-led. More importantly, Professor Ted Baker, the chief inspector of hospitals, has recommended the trust should be removed from special measures.
Baker said: “While there is still work to be done at the trust, reflected in its overall rating of requires improvement, there is no doubt that much positive change has taken place. This is testament to the hard work and commitment of staff and the trust's leadership, and they are to be congratulated for what they have achieved.”
Trust chief executive Nick Hulme said: “This is a significant achievement and I would like to personally thank our staff for everything they’ve done to improve the care we provide. We have had excellent support from our partners in the health and social care system locally as well as from the NHS in the region and I am very grateful for that.
“A strongly performing hospital is simply a better place to work as well as a better place to be treated. When I arrived in 2016, I said this is about more than just the CQC and we needed to concentrate on doing the right thing for our patients. Today’s news shows that patient-focused services deliver better care.”
Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust was placed in special measures in November 2013 over cancer data inaccuracies, before further data inaccuracies were found in inspector visits in 2015. In August this year the trust boards of Ipswich and Colchester Hospitals voted to develop plans for a single combined organisation to care for patients.
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