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Hospital still missing targets

The scandal-hit Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust is still not meeting recommendations on improvements in its accident and emergency departments, the Care Quality Commission has found.

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'Continued monitoring' at Trust until service is safe

Malcolm Bower-Brown, the CQC's regional director for the North said:

Although we are pleased to report evidence of improvement since our original investigation last year, with only seven of 40 recommendations met in full, there is still a great deal of work to be done to deliver and sustain the further improvements in the safety and effectiveness of services that are required at the trust.

We will continue to monitor the trust closely over the coming months until we are assured that the required service improvements are fully embedded and patients are receiving safe and effective services on a sustainable basis.

Hospital criticised on staffing and complaints systems

The CQC said the Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust must take action to ensure suitably qualified and experienced paediatric staff are available at all times within the A&E department

It must also improve its complaints handling systems to make sure that complaints are responded to fully and in a timely manner, demonstrating that changes to practice have been introduced as a result, the report said.

It said today's report into A&E at the Morecambe Bay Trust "marks the end of our formal investigation" but it will "continue to monitor the trust closely."

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Scandal-hit NHS Trust still missing recommendations

Furness General Hospital is further criticised in a new report. Credit: PA

A scandal-hit health trust is still not meeting recommendations on improvements in its accident and emergency department, a watchdog has found.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) undertook an investigation of the delivery of emergency care services at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust which runs the Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Furness General Hospital in Barrow, Cumbria.

A report out today following a follow up review in April this year by a team of eight CQC inspectors found of the 40 recommendations made in the original investigation, seven have been met, 30 are partly met and three remain outstanding.

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