Inpatient mental health care at two county hospitals has been rated as outstanding overall following an inspection in July.<\/p>\n
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected acute wards for working age adults and psychiatric intensive care units at St Mary’s Hospital in Kettering and Berrywood Hospital in Northampton.<\/p>\n
The Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was also rated outstanding for how effective and well-led it was and good for safety, care and responsiveness. <\/p>\n
“We found a strong leadership who created an exceptional culture of learning, openness, and continuous improvement, which led to better results,” said Gemma Berry, CQC deputy director of Mental Health in the Midlands.<\/p>\n
The CQC said staff recognised the “close relationship between physical and mental health” and worked to identify health risks early to prevent deterioration.<\/p>\n
Inspectors found the service demonstrated innovation – and staff understood their responsibilities under the Mental Health Act 1983, the Mental Health Act Code of Practice and the Mental Capacity Act.<\/p>\n
Inspectors also found staff developed environments and approaches that promoted inclusion and reduced distress for neurodivergent patients, through access to sensory rooms and equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inpatient mental health care at two county hospitals has been rated as outstanding overall following an inspection in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[134,554,555,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-616170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616170","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=616170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}