Southern Health making progress but still 'requires improvement'
Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust has shown signs of progress but still 'requires improvement', according to a new report by the Care Quality Commission.
Inspections took place in June and July this year, the first comprehensive report into the trust since 2014.
The trust has been rated 'good' for being caring and responsive.
However the CQC has kept its rating of the trust as 'requires improvement'.
In March 2018, the trust was fined £2 million for failing to prevent the deaths of two patients in its care.
In 2013, 18-year-old Connor Sparrowhawk was left unsupervised and drowned in a bath after suffering an epileptic seizure at Slade House in Oxfordshire.
In April 2012, Teresa Colvin was found unconscious in a communal phone booth while being treated at the Woodhaven unit in Hampshire, the 45-year-old died four days later.
Watch Rachel Hepworth's report below
Interviewees:
Becky Noyce, Clinical Sister
Dr Nick Broughton, CEO, Southern Health
Maureen Rickman, Jo Deering's sister
Sara Ryan, Connor Sparrowhawk's mother
The CQC inspected 10 mental health core services:
Acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units (PICU's)
Long stay/rehabilitation mental health wards for working age adults
Forensic inpatient / secure wards
Child and adolescent mental health wards
Wards for older people with mental health problems
Wards for people with a learning disability or autism
Community-based mental health services for adults of working age
Mental health crisis services and health based places of safety
Community-based mental health services for older people
Community mental health services for people with a learning disability or autism
It also inspected all five of the community health services:
Community health services for adults
Community health services for children, young people and families
Community health inpatient services
End of life care
Urgent care