- NHS hospital
Worcestershire Royal Hospital
Report from 27 June 2024 assessment
Contents
Ratings - Medical care (Including older people's care)
Our view of the service
An unannounced inspection of stroke services was carried out on 28 August 2024. During this inspection inspectors reviewed 3 areas of the safe domain, safe systems, pathways and transitions, safe and effective staffing and medicine optimisation and 1 area of the effective domain, consent to care and treatment. This meant that under the current methodology the rating held by medical core service from the last inspection in 2022 remained in place. During the most recent inspection of stroke services inspectors did not identify any regulatory breaches. Medical Care, which covers stroke care, was last inspected in November 2022 as part of the wider inspection of Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Both the trust and hospital were rated ‘requires improvement’ overall. Worcestershire Royal Hospital medicine core service rating was also rated as ‘requires improvement’ overall. The report was published in April 2023. The Hyper Acute Stroke unit (HASU) is situated on the Acute Stroke Unit (ASU). This is where people required level 2 care (people requiring more detailed observations and interventions) of the Worcestershire Royal Hospital. HASU shares its location and staffing with the Acute Stroke Unit. The HASU consists of 8 mixed sex beds, nursed in 2 separate bays.
People's experience of this service
People told us they were satisfied with their care and treatment, they felt involved in decision making about their care and suitably informed.