The County Hospital, Stafford.The County Hospital in Stafford is a Hospital specialising in the provision of services relating to assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the 1983 act, diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning services, maternity and midwifery services, services for everyone and surgical procedures. The last inspection date here was 14th February 2020 Contact Details:
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1st April 2015 - During a routine inspection
The County Hospital is part of The University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust. It was known as Stafford Hospital until 31 October 2014, when it was part of Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. In 2013, the foundation trust was put into administration by Monitor. The new trust was created on 1 November 2014, following integration with University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust.
We inspected this hospital in April 2015 as part of the comprehensive inspection programme. We inspected all core services provided.
We visited the hospital on 23 April 2015 as part of our announced inspection. We also visited unannounced on the trust on Friday 1 May and Tuesday 5 May 2015. Our unannounced visit included A&E and Medical Care Services.
Overall we have rated this hospital as requiring improvement. We saw that services were caring and compassionate. We saw a number of areas that required improvement for them to be assessed as safe and effective. We saw that leadership of services at the trust also required improvement at both a local and an executive level.
Our key findings were as follows:
We saw outstanding work being done on the Specialised Neurological Unit at the County Hospital to improve the outcomes for patients
However, there were also areas of poor practice where the trust needs to make improvements.
Importantly, the trust must:
Professor Sir Mike Richards
Chief Inspector of Hospitals
1st January 1970 - During a routine inspection
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