Condition lifted at West London Mental Health

We have today lifted one of the three conditions imposed on West London Mental Health Trust.

Under the Mental Health Act (MHA), patients’ detention papers must be reviewed regularly to ensure their rights and needs are being met. According to our new report, the trust now has effective systems in place to ensure:

• documents are reviewed within set timescales
• treatment and care are continually reviewed
The report also reveals that the trust has:
• put in place an action plan that records feedback provided by Mental Health Commissioner visits, enabling managers to effectively act on them
• implemented a quarterly care plan audit which is to be reported to the Patient Experience and Recovery Group meeting led by the Head of Nursing
• created current care plans for detained patients, demonstrating that staff are conversing with patients about their condition

However, evidence shows that not all patients have current care plans in place.
We will continue to monitor West London Mental Health to ensure that progress is being made on patients’ care plans, and to check on the progress of the two remaining conditions relating to:
• staffing
• systems to assess and monitor quality and safety of service provision

Find out more

• Download the Review of compliance: http://www.cqc.org.uk/publications.cfm?fde_id=16220