Cheadle Royal Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

• We assessed Cheadle Royal Hospital from 9 to 12 December 2024.
• We assessed the service to review the progress made against the warning notices that were served on the provider following the inspection in February and March 2023. We found that the service had made improvements and had met the actions of the warning notices.
• Cheadle Royal Hospital was registered with CQC in December 2010 to deliver the regulated activities: Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 and Treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The service had a controlled drugs accountable officer and a Registered Manager.

• We visited the following wards as part of the assessment:

  Alder ward, adult acute ward for men and women with 14 beds

  Evergreen ward, adult acute ward for men and women with 15 beds

  Featherstone ward, adult psychiatric intensive care unit for men with 10 beds

  Maple ward, adult acute ward for men and women with 15 beds

  Pankhurst ward, adult psychiatric intensive care unit for women with 10 beds

  Redwood ward, adult acute ward for men and women with 12 beds

  Willows ward, adult psychiatric intensive care unit for men with 10 beds

  Woodlands ward, CAMHS Low Secure Unit with 10 beds

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• At this assessment we identified breaches of regulations 9 Person Centred Care, 12 Safe Care and Treatment, 15 Premises and Equipment, 17 Good Governance and 18 Staffing.
• At this assessment we assessed 2 assessment service groups; Acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units where we assessed 26 quality statements and Child and adolescent mental health wards where we assessed 33 quality statements.
• We have assessed the service against `Right support, right care, right culture' guidance to make judgements about whether the provider guaranteed people with a learning disability and autistic people respect, equality, dignity, choices, independence and good access to local communities that most people take for granted.

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Requires Improvement rating

We rated the service as Requires Improvement. In the acute wards for adults of working age and psychiatric intensive care units, we found 5 breaches of regulations in relation to: reasonable adjustments for patients with protected characteristics, medicines management, cleanliness and maintenance of the environment, oversight and implementation of policies and procedures and ensuring staff receive an induction into the ward they are working on and receive regular supervision. In the child and adolescent mental health wards we found 3 breaches of the regulations in relation to reasonable adjustments for patients with protected characteristics, cleanliness and maintenance of the environment and oversight and implementation of policies and procedures.

We have asked the provider for an action plan in response to the concerns found at this assessment.

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