It said inspectors observed “inconsistencies” with the oversight of patients – describing how one person was left 19 hours before a medical review due to an administration error. <\/p>\n
It described how medical services “didn’t always have enough qualified, skilled and experienced staff due to shortfalls in mandatory training in some staff groups”. <\/p>\n
Senior leaders at the hospital acknowledged that patient flow – moving patients through the hospital – was one of the “biggest challenges” at Arrowe Park with bed occupancy regularly exceeding 95%.<\/p>\n
However, the CQC found “areas of good practice” across both services, including in managing mental health risk and safeguarding.<\/p>\n
It said staff were described as “kind and caring”, whilst working under significant pressure.<\/p>\n
Ms Holmes added: “As with other trusts, our urgent and emergency care services have faced very high levels of attendances throughout the year.”<\/p>\n
She said a new urgent and emergency care facility was close to being completed. <\/p>\n
“Our staff continue to work extremely hard to provide quality care for our patients and we have plans in place to ensure our staff feel supported as we head into a busy winter period,” she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It said inspectors observed “inconsistencies” with the oversight of patients – describing how one person was left 19…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-222215","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-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}