Milton Keynes Hospital, Eaglestone, Milton Keynes.Milton Keynes Hospital in Eaglestone, Milton Keynes is a Community services - Healthcare, Diagnosis/screening, Hospice, Hospital and Urgent care centre specialising in the provision of services relating to assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the 1983 act, diagnostic and screening procedures, family planning services, maternity and midwifery services, services for everyone, surgical procedures, termination of pregnancies and treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The last inspection date here was 30th July 2019 Contact Details:
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7th August 2012 - During a themed inspection looking at Dignity and Nutrition
People told us what it was like to be a patient in Milton Keynes Hospital. They described how they were treated by staff and their involvement in making choices about their care. They also told us about the quality and choice of food and drink available. This was because this inspection was part of a themed inspection programme to assess whether older people in hospitals were treated with dignity and respect and whether their nutritional needs were met. The inspection team was led by two Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspectors joined by a practising professional and an Expert by Experience, who has personal experience of using or caring for someone who uses this type of service. We used the Short Observational Framework for Inspection (SOFI). SOFI is a specific way of observing care to help us understand the experience of people who could not talk with us. We observed care and spoke with staff and 38 patients on the acute female medical ward (Ward A) and the male cardiology and mixed sex high dependency respiratory ward (Ward B). We spoke with patients about the food at the hospital. Most patients said they were happy with the food provided, and the choices available to them. They told us that the mealtimes, snacks and drinks were adequate. On Ward A five patients told us they were happy with the care they received. One patient said they had been treated well and the nurses had taken the time to talk with them. Two people told us they felt safe. On Ward B the patients we spoke with said that they knew the staff well as they were the same ones working there every day. One patient told us "I feel confident that I can approach staff" another told us, "The staff are very caring and nice". However, on Ward A one relative we spoke with felt that a lack of continuity of staff resulted in issues around staff knowing preferences and choices. Another relative stated they had seen several different nurses within the week and could not identify the person in charge. We spoke with patients who told us they could not tell who were nurses and who were care assistants as the uniforms were so similar.
22nd March 2012 - During a themed inspection looking at Termination of Pregnancy Services
We did not speak to people who used this service as part of this review. We looked at a random sample of medical records. This was to check that current practice ensured that no treatment for the termination of pregnancy was commenced unless two certificated opinions from doctors had been obtained.
16th November 2011 - During an inspection to make sure that the improvements required had been made
The people we spoke with on ward 20 said they were happy with the care and treatment provided. They said the ward was very clean. People told us they saw staff wash their hands, use hand rub or wear gloves and apron before carrying out care.
21st September 2011 - During an inspection to make sure that the improvements required had been made
We spoke to people on ward 20. They told us they were happy with the care and treatment they received. They said they had been given enough information and had the opportunity to see their doctor and ask questions. People said staff treated them with respect and dignity. People thought the hospital was clean and they saw staff washing their hands before performing duties.
20th January 2011 - During an inspection in response to concerns
In general patients told us that they were well informed and involved in decision making. They said that doctors and nurses introduced themselves and spoke to them in a way they could understand. The exception to this was ward 20 where a patient said that they had been told what was going to happen and that there had been no discussion. They also said that staff did not introduce themselves or ask permission to proceed with tasks. Patients told us that staff cleaned their hands and used the hand gel. However, on ward 20 a patient told us that the doctor had examined them without cleaning their hands and that they were not aware of staff in general cleaning their hands. A patient on ward 20 told us that each time a doctor came to see them that they asked the same questions again. They said that it was as though no one had recorded the previous conversation. Staff told us that mandatory training was available and that this included infection prevention and control, fire awareness and evacuation procedures, equality and diversity and data protection. They also said that patients with infections were barrier nursed and their care planned according to an assessment of risk.
1st January 1970 - During an inspection to make sure that the improvements required had been made
Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of one medium-sized district general hospital. The trust provides a full range of hospital services including an emergency department, critical care, general medicine including elderly care, general surgery, paediatrics and maternity care. In total, the trust has 517 hospital beds. In addition to providing general acute services, Milton Keynes Hospital increasingly provides more specialist services, including cancer care, cardiology and oral surgery.
We inspected Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as part of our comprehensive inspection programme in October 2014. Overall, we rated this trust as “requires improvement and noted some outstanding practice and innovation. However, improvements were needed to ensure that services were safe, effective, and responsive to people’s needs.
We carried out a focused, unannounced inspection to the trust on 12, 13 and 17 July 2016, to check how improvements had been made in the urgent and emergency care, medical care and end of life care core services. We also inspected the maternity and gynaecology service.
Overall, we inspected all five key questions for the urgent and emergency care and medical care core services and found that improvements had been made so that both core services were now rated as good overall.
For the maternity and gynaecology service, at the last inspection, all five key questions were rated as good. At this inspection, we rated safety and well-led as good.
We found that significant improvements had been made in the end of life care service and that the key question of safe was now rated as good.
Applying our aggregation principles to the ratings from the last inspection and this inspection, overall, the trust’s ratings have significantly improved to be good overall. This was because four key questions, namely effective, caring, responsive and well-led, were rated as good, with safe being requiring improvement.
Our key findings were as follows:
We saw several areas of outstanding practice including:
However, there were also areas of poor practice where the trust needs to make improvements:
Importantly, the trust should:
Professor Sir Mike Richards
Chief Inspector of Hospitals
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