{"id":313880,"date":"2025-12-13T12:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313880\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T12:56:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:56:07","slug":"cqc-could-take-more-action-at-northampton-mental-health-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313880\/","title":{"rendered":"CQC &#8216;could take more action&#8217; at Northampton mental health hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Labour MP for Northampton South, Mike Reader, said there was a &#8220;culture problem&#8221; at the hospital which would need to be addressed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had been &#8220;horrified&#8221; by some of the allegations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was clear, when the report was done, there was no learning culture. So things have gone wrong and lessons haven&#8217;t been learned and that is one thing St Andrew&#8217;s now has to get right,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reader said he did not think it was likely the hospital was at threat of closure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;It is a critical facility for complex mental health in Northamptonshire and across the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hospital had made assurances there was a &#8220;different culture&#8221; that would foster &#8220;learning and improvement and care that puts patients at its heart,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However he said there were &#8220;questions to be answered&#8221; by the CQC and local NHS integrated care board about why repeated concerns were not dealt with. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I will continue asking questions about how we&#8217;ve got to this position, particularly given the concerns raised by the CQC are so shockingly disturbing&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesman for St Andrew&#8217;s said an action plan was in place and apologised to those affected. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Labour MP for Northampton South, Mike Reader, said there was a &#8220;culture problem&#8221; at the hospital which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[102,1906,6623,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-313880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-mentalhealth","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313880","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=313880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}