{"id":442632,"date":"2026-05-15T06:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/442632\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:29:08","slug":"weak-oversight-and-failures-at-doncaster-royal-infirmary-ae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/442632\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Weak oversight and failures&#8221; at Doncaster Royal Infirmary A&#038;E"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspectors saw 10 patients being directed between departments without any record being made, meaning the hospital had &#8220;no oversight or ownership&#8221; of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At one point, 18 patients were waiting in an area designed for 10, overcrowding which the CQC said risked meaning staff could not provide safe care and treatment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Staff did not always have sufficient time and resources for effective governance and risk management, the report said, and data collection was inconsistent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There was a &#8220;slow pace of change&#8221; between the CQC&#8217;s two inspections in December and January, the report added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The CQC will continue to monitor the NHS trust to oversee the required &#8220;rapid and sustained improvements&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c172enk0pqdo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Section 29A notice issued earlier this month<\/a> will remain in place until the CQC is assured that all required improvements have been fully embedded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson for the trust said: &#8220;We also know there is more to be done to improve, and we are committed to ensuring teams have the right support in place to deliver the standard of care they want to provide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know we can do better, and we will.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspectors saw 10 patients being directed between departments without any record being made, meaning the hospital had &#8220;no&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-442632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}