Hospital services rated 'requires improvement'

CONCERNS OVER HOW QUEEN ELIZABETH STAFF USED EQUIPMENT, MANAGED MEDICINES AND PROVIDED TREATMENT IN A TIMELY WAY

- JASBIR AUTHI News Reporter

KEY services at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital have been ordered to improve by a health watchdog.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) downgraded surgery from good to requires improvement and rated urgent and emergency care services as requires improvement following an unannounced inspection in March.

It also carried out an unannounced inspection of urgent and emergency care services to follow up on improvements it had told the trust running the hospital to make at a previous inspection.

Inspectors found the service had made many improvements, but it still needed to make further progress.

The CQC upgraded the rating for how safe urgent and emergency care services is from inadequate to requires improvement.

How effective the service is improved from requires improvement to good.

Responsiveness remains rated as requires improvement, and how caring the service is, remains good.