{"id":44202,"date":"2014-06-25T23:15:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T23:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=8f79eeba191d8d7b7d7273d50195a116"},"modified":"2014-06-25T23:15:06","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T23:15:06","slug":"news-story-university-hospitals-of-morecambe-bay-nhs-foundation-trust-put-into-special-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=44202","title":{"rendered":"News story: University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust put into special measures"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The decision follows a recent comprehensive inspection by the Care Quality Commission\u2019s (CQC<\/abbr>) Chief Inspector of Hospitals which identified that progress had been made in dealing with a number of concerns, but that the quality of care was still inadequate.<\/p>\n

The CQC<\/abbr> inspection found University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust needs to increase staffing levels across the organisation and improve the way it is run.<\/p>\n

Monitor has therefore taken further regulatory action, which will see the trust develop and deliver a plan to improve the way the trust is managed. <\/p>\n

Morecambe Bay has been in breach of its licence<\/a> to provide healthcare services since October 2011 and Monitor has taken a number of steps to secure improvements in A&E and maternity services which has been recognised by CQC<\/abbr>\u2019s inspection team. <\/p>\n

Level of care and the quality of senior leadership \u201cnot good enough\u201d<\/h3>\n

As part of special measures Monitor will appoint an Improvement Director, whose role will be to provide support and expertise but also to hold the trust to account.<\/p>\n

Monitor will take further regulatory action if improvements are not made.<\/p>\n

Adam Cayley, Regional Director at Monitor, said:<\/p>\n

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The trust has co-operated with Monitor in making some improvements in recent years, but the Chief Inspector of Hospitals has reported on wider failings in care that must be addressed.<\/p>\n

The level of care and the quality of senior leadership at this trust has not been good enough, that\u2019s why we\u2019ve put Morecambe Bay into special measures.<\/p>\n

The pressure is on to turn things around for its patients, but the trust will receive extra support and guidance as it starts to address the many issues it faces.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monitor has put the struggling NHS foundation trust into special measures due to concerns about the quality of care it provides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}