To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of blocking the admission of new patients to Taplow Manor Hospital until a review of the adequacy of the standard of care provided by that hospital has been completed.
This answer is the replacement for a previous holding answer.
Answered on
20 June 2023
Whilst the Department has not made, and is not planning to make, any such assessments, NHS England and the local provider collaboratives are working intensively with Active Care Group to improve the quality of care at the Group’s hospitals, including Taplow Manor Hospital.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has advised that Active Care Group has added adults as a service user group to its registration of Taplow Manor Hospital however this does not remove the overall rating of inadequate for the service or the fact that the hospital still remains in special measures. The service will be kept under close review by the CQC and re-inspected to check sufficient improvements have been made. If on re-inspection, the CQC is still not satisfied with the progress made, it will take further action if necessary to protect the people using this service, including potentially removing the registration of the service or imposing registration conditions.
The CQC will reinspect Taplow Manor in due course to rate the new core service of acute wards for adults of working age.