Inspectors from CareQualityComm were at LancsHospitals for two days during an unannounced visit
– Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – was subject to the latter back in 2019, it was rated as “requires improvement” for the fourth time in five years.The organisation has been told that a standalone inspection of how well led it is will take place across three days at the end of this month. However, even in conjunction with the outcome of the A&E and medicine service assessments, it will not be enough to generate a new overarching rating for the trust.
The commission is known to prioritise inspections of facilities most recently rated as requiring improvement or being inadequate. In its latest board report, “the absence of recurrent funding in the [emergency department]” was highlighted as the reason for the risk that the recommendation would not be met. While it was noted that an urgent and emergency care transformation programme aimed to reduce the funding gap, “it will not remove it entirely”, the document warned.
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