Forest Dialysis Unit

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• Overview
• Learning culture
• Safe systems, pathways and transitions
• Safeguarding
• Involving people to manage risks
• Safe environments
• Safe and effective staffing
• Infection prevention and control
• Medicines optimisation

This service was previously inspected as a responsive assessment in response to concerns which had been raised. The service was rated Good in April 2025. At this inspection we rated safe as Good.

We found the service detected and mitigated potential risks in the care environment and staff carried out daily safety checks of specialist equipment, including the resuscitation equipment.

The service had enough nursing staff to keep patients safe.

Staff kept up to date with mandatory training. Training compliance over all was 95% across all staff groups.

All eligible staff received meaningful appraisals.

This service scored 34 (out of 100) for this area. Find out what we look at when we assess this area and How we calculate these scores.

We did not look at Learning culture during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Safe.

We did not look at Safe systems, pathways and transitions during this assessment. There is no previous rating for the Safe key question so we cannot yet publish a score for this area.

We did not look at Safeguarding during this assessment. The score for this quality statement is based on the previous rating for Safe.

We did not look at Involving people to manage risks during this assessment. There is no previous rating for the Safe key question so we cannot yet publish a score for this area.

The service detected and mitigated potential risks in the care environment.

Staff carried out daily safety checks of specialist equipment, including the resuscitation equipment. Staff checked the water used for dialysing regularly. On our previous assessment we saw there were gaps in records. We reviewed the six months’ worth of records in the lead up to the assessment and saw no gaps or omissions.

The service had enough nursing staff to keep patients safe. Managers accurately calculated and reviewed the number and grade of nurses needed for each shift in accordance with national guidance.

Staff kept up to date with mandatory training. On our previous assessment we found staff did not have protected or meaningful time to complete mandatory training and only 67% of staff had undertaken mental capacity training. On this inspection we found this had now improved and data submitted showed 100% of staff had now completed this training. Training compliance overall was 95% across all staff groups.

Staff received meaningful appraisals. On our previous inspection we found staff working at the unit had not had an appraisal or any clinical supervision since the unit was taken over in December 2023. This has now improved and data showed all eligible staff received an appraisal.

We did not look at Infection prevention and control during this assessment. There is no previous rating for the Safe key question so we cannot yet publish a score for this area.

We did not look at Medicines optimisation during this assessment. There is no previous rating for the Safe key question so we cannot yet publish a score for this area.