{"id":355498,"date":"2026-01-06T17:07:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355498\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T17:07:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T17:07:19","slug":"stevenages-cygnet-hospital-receives-latest-cqc-assessment-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/355498\/","title":{"rendered":"Stevenage&#8217;s Cygnet Hospital receives latest CQC assessment report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Cygnet Hospital &#8211; which opened on Graveley Road in 2006 &#8211; offers a range of secure and Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit\u00a0and acute mental health services for men and women.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The latest review and report is based on review of Cygnet&#8217;s Acute and Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (PICU) wards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The assessment report, dated December 18, ranked the hospital as &#8216;good&#8217; for the categories: effective, caring, responsive and well-led, but deemed it to require improvement under the &#8216;safe&#8217; category.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The CQC report states: &#8220;During this assessment we spoke with staff including hospital managers, nurses and healthcare assistants.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We inspected the ward environments and clinic rooms at the hospital. We observed staff and patient interactions on these wards.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;We reviewed patient care records, and patient prescription charts and reviewed minutes of various meetings, policies and procedures, data and documents relevant to the running of the service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;At our last assessment we rated this service as good overall. At this assessment the rating remains good.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  For the full report and more information, go to https:\/\/www.cqc.org.uk\/location\/1-130486821.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cygnet Hospital &#8211; which opened on Graveley Road in 2006 &#8211; offers a range of secure and Psychiatric&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-355498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355498","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=355498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}