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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 194237, tabled on 14 July 2023

Question

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan
Labour
Tooting
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of staffing levels at Penn Hospital.

Answer

Maria Caulfield
Conservative
Lewes
Commons

Answered on

20 July 2023

The Department has not made any such assessments as these are matters for the Care Quality Commission (CQC). The CQC recently inspected Black Country Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in February 2023. The CQC looked at acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units core services at five sites, including wards at Penn Hospital.

The CQC rated wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units as ‘Requires Improvement’ overall and in all domains except ‘Caring’, which was rated ‘Good’.

The CQC identified five breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008. The CQC served requirement notices for the breaches and the Trust has subsequently devised an action plan to address the CQC’s concerns. The CQC monitors this regularly, including via monthly meetings with Trust leaders.

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