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Salford Royal Surgery Rated 'Requires Improvement'
30 Sep
Summary
- Surgery services require improvement due to patient safety and timely care issues.
- 12 regulation breaches found in safety, governance, and staffing.
- Concerns raised about waiting times, discharge delays, and readmission rates.
Surgery services at Salford Royal Hospital were found to require improvement during a recent inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The inspection, conducted in May, highlighted concerns in gynaecology, spinal surgery, and neurosurgery.
While the hospital made sufficient progress on a previous warning notice regarding staffing levels, the CQC identified 12 breaches of regulations. These breaches relate to patient safety, hospital governance, and staffing.
Specific findings included staff lacking essential life-support training, infection-control standards falling below targets, and a lack of timely investigation into incidents. The report also raised flags about extended waiting times, delays in patient discharges, and higher-than-desired patient readmission rates after surgery.
