Map of health based places of safety from the CQC

The Care Quality Commission have produced an interactive map of all 2161 designated health based places of safety for people detained under section 136 of the Mental Health Act.

Health based places of safety

A place of safety is usually for people who have been detained in a public place by the police because they have a mental disorder and may pose a risk of harm to themselves or others, pending a mental health assessment. Places of safety include hospitals, care homes or other suitable venues (usually mental health units).

The map covers the whole of England and for each unit includes full contact details and opening hours, as well as the age range of the patients they accept.

You can also view the map by local authority boundary, CCG areas or police force coverage.

The page also has a link to the CQC's survey of health based places of safety.

Northampton General Hospital CQC report

www.cqc.org.uk

The Care Quality Commission have published their inspection report of Northampton General Hospital (carried out under the new acute hospital inspection model).

• Inspection report overview
• Full inspection report (.PDF)

New social care comparison service launched

Choosing Care

The Government has launched a new service which aims to provide a comprehensive source of information on care services. The site, a part of the NHS Choices service, allows the comparison of residential care homes as well as other care services. It brings together information from a variety of sources including:

• official information from the Care Quality Commission inspection reports on care services
• information from care providers on the specialist services and facilities they offer, with details of staff and other useful information such as sample menus, photos of rooms and gardens
• comments from the public, service users, residents and their families on their own experiences of the care provider, including links to other comment sites
• from next month, the ability for the public to give services star ratings
• official Ofsted-style rating for care services, when they are introduced

Currently there is information on over 8000 providers with more being added.

The site also features information about choosing care services, explanations of different care options and on getting help with the costs of care.

CQC Adult Inpatient Survey 2012

www.cqc.org.uk

The CQC have now published the results of the survey of inpatients in England that ran between September 2012 and January 2013.

The survey had over 64,500 participants who had at least one overnight stay (there were some exclusions including psychiatric and maternity admissions).

Results

• National summary of results
• Full comparison with the 2011 survey
• A-Z List of participating trusts and their results
• Technical details of how trusts were scored

Local Trusts

• Northampton General Hospital Results
• Northampton General Hospital Benchmark Report (comparing local results with national data)

• Kettering General Hospital Results
• Kettering General Hospital Benchmark Report 

CQC national report on dignity and nutrition review

This review was a targeted inspection programme of some NHS hospitals. It looked at whether older people are treated with respect and whether they receive the nutritional support that meets their needs.

You can find the following reports on the CQC web sites in relation to the inspection programme:

• An overview giving the national picture from the inspections which you can find here
• Inspection results from individual trusts which you can find here
• Locally, Kettering General Hospital were inspected and you can find the report here

CQC publishes NHS staff survey reports for local Trusts

 The CQC has published the results of the 2010 NHS staff survey for all the local NHS Trusts.

 Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust

• Summary report 
• Full Report    

Northampton General Hospital

• Summary report
• Full report

Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust

• Summary report
• Full report

Northamptonshire PCT (NHS Northamptonshire)

• Summary report
• Full report