The CQC report upgraded maternity services at the Royal Sussex County Hospital from “inadequate” to “requires improvement”, after inspectors found “several improvements”. <\/p>\n
But it added more work was needed to ensure services were “fully effective” in meeting the needs of women and babies.<\/p>\n
“People using the service told us staff treated them with compassion and kindness,” said the CQC’s Ms Williams. <\/p>\n
“We observed strong teamwork between doctors, midwives, and other healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n
“However, we also found new concerns,” she continued.<\/p>\n
Issues identified with maternity services included the design and environment of the maternity unit and that there was only one obstetric theatre. <\/p>\n
Dr Heeps welcomed the CQC’s recognition of the progress made at Brighton’s maternity department. <\/p>\n
“While the service has moved up a level overall, we totally accept that we need to go further,” he said. <\/p>\n
“We are continually talking with families and staff to understand what more we can do.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The CQC report upgraded maternity services at the Royal Sussex County Hospital from “inadequate” to “requires improvement”, after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188040,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-188039","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}