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Councillors to question North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust after CQC report raises care concerns (8 February 2016)
Date: 08/02/2016
A senior Hartlepool councillor has raised concerns after the University Hospital of Hartlepool was described as “requiring improvement” in a Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection report.
Councillor Ray-Martin Wells chairs the Hartlepool Council’s Audit & Governance Committee and said that it was “disturbing to hear” that overall services provided by the North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust at the University Hospital of Hartlepool were “not performing as well as they should be”, despite the CQC identifying areas of good practice at the hospital.
Cllr Martin-Wells said:
“As chair of the Audit and Governance Committee, I will be seeking an explanation from the trust as to how they intend to implement the improvements required by the CQC.
“There is a common thread running through this report, which questions leadership of the hospital trust – and this leads me to question whether the trust has the ability to deliver the quality hospital and healthcare services we expect on a day-to-day basis.
“The Audit & Governance Committee will be formally receiving the trust’s quality account information at its meeting on 11 February – and I am sure that councillors will have further searching questions to put to the trust.”
In January, Hartlepool councillors summoned trust chiefs to explain a recent announcement that the trust will no longer provide licensed fertility treatment –
including IVF – at the University Hospital of Hartlepool after March.
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