Breaches found at Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Trust

We have published two reports revealing serious concerns at Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust.
The reports show Bridlington Hospital is only compliant with six of our 16 essential standards, whilst Scarborough Hospital is compliant with just one.

Our concerns relate to:

• staffing levels
• buildings and maintenance
• patient records
• safeguarding arrangements
• systems for assessing and monitoring service quality

The trust has, however, complied with the following conditions to:

• complete a full risk assessment of its premises and put plans in place to make improvements to the environment
• employ more medical records staff
We have given the trust 14 days to produce plans on how it intends to comply with all our standards. Scarborough and North East Yorkshire faces tougher enforcement action if it does not address our concerns.

Read our press release: http://www.cqc.org.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases.cfm?cit_id=36747&FAArea1=customWidgets.content_view_1&usecache=false