“Excellent”
Result for the Trust
The Care Quality Commission
has published the Annual Health Check ratings today for the year
ended 31st March, 2009. The Royal Wolverhampton
Hospitals NHS Trust is delighted that for the second year running
the hospital has been rated as “Excellent” for the Quality of
Services it provides.
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to view the full detail of how the assessment is made
up. Out of a total of 67 points the hospital actually
scored 66, which is a remarkable achievement when in 2006 the Trust
was only rated as “Fair”.
As far as the Trust’s score on Financial
Standing is concerned, we have gone from “Weak” in 2005 to “Good”
in today’s published Health Check for 2009. It is an
unbelievable achievement for what was one of the 17 most
financially challenged Trusts in the NHS and had the Trust been a
Foundation Trust, because the scores are calculated differently we
would have received an “Excellent” rating and therefore been double
“Excellent” for both Quality of Services and Use of
Resources.
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view a a table which shows the performance of the other Acute
Trusts in the West Midlands and The Royal Wolverhampton
Hospitals NHS Trust is equal first with University Hospital
Birmingham Foundation Trust for the quality of services it
provides, which is the most important thing to patients and users
of the service.
Half way through the year The Royal
Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust continues to perform at the
highest level in terms of infection prevention, patient safety and
preventing harm to patients and we are well on track to achieve a
third year of being “Excellent” for the quality of services we
provide. We hope this gives existing patients and people who
may use our services in the future, total confidence that they will
receive the best quality of care in Wolverhampton, which is one of
only 37 hospitals nationally to be rated “Excellent”.