- NHS hospital
Worcestershire Royal Hospital
Report from 27 June 2024 assessment
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust provides acute healthcare services to a population of around 580,000 in Worcestershire and the surrounding counties. There are approximately 742 inpatient and day case beds, of which 73 are maternity and 32 are critical care. Worcestershire Royal Hospital provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services, rehabilitation services, including stroke services and cardiac stenting. The service can carry out the following regulated activities. Maternity and midwifery services, termination of pregnancies, family planning, treatment of disease, disorder or injury, assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 , surgical procedures, diagnostic and screening procedures, management of supply of blood and blood derived products. We carried out an unannounced inspection of stroke services 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.