Cheadle Royal Hospital

Our overall rating of safe at Cheadle Royal Hospital has remained the same. Children and adolescent mental health wards were rated as requires improvement for safe at the last inspection and at this inspection the rating has remained requires improvement. We found evidence of a breach of Regulation 12: Safe care and treatment.

This meant some aspects of the service were not always safe and there was limited assurance about safety. There was an increased risk that people could be harmed. The information on young people’s records about the risks relating to their care was not always updated in a timely manner following incidents. We identified some maintenance and infection prevention and control issues in the care environment. Young people and staff were not consistently supported with debriefs following incidents on the ward, information about lessons learned from incidents was not shared with all staff and medicines were not always stored safely. However, incidents were responded to and reported effectively and young people were kept safe from abuse and neglect. The ward was adequately staffed and staff worked well together both within the hospital and with external stakeholders to share information in order to keep young people safe.