Poole Hospital Scores 'Excellent' For Quality Of Care
The quality of services at Poole Hospital have been rated as 'excellent' by the Healthcare Commission.
Poole Hospital has scored top marks for the quality of its services in new national health care ratings published today, putting it among the top 57 performing NHS organisations in the country.
The hospital has also maintained a clean bill of health for managing its finances.
The Healthcare Commission Annual Health Check scores for 2007 to 2008 give Poole Hospital ratings of ‘excellent’ for the quality of services and ‘good’ for its use of resources. The quality of services score covers a range of areas including the safety of patients, cleanliness and waiting times, and the use of resources score looks at how well we manage our finances.
In addition, Poole Hospital fully met all the core standards set down for it by the Healthcare Commission, the NHS watchdog. We also met all of the existing national targets in full and were rated as ‘excellent’ for meeting new national targets.
It is the third year that the Healthcare Commission has published this comprehensive form of performance ratings. The ‘excellent’ is an improvement on last year, when Poole Hospital was rated as ‘good’ for both the quality of services and use of resources.
In summary, the Healthcare Commission commented: ‘Based on our assessment for 2007/08, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provided an excellent quality of service to patients, having made improvements compared with the previous two years’.
Sue Sutherland, Chief Executive, said: "We are delighted that the quality of services at Poole Hospital has been recognised as excellent by the Healthcare Commission.
"The annual health check is a comprehensive assessment NHS performance. To do well, Poole Hospital had to perform strongly across a broad range of standards and targets covering those areas that really matter to our patients.
"Over the past year we have all been working hard to improve the services provided to our patients and this result is a testament to the hard work and commitment of all our staff. At Poole Hospital we strive to put patients at the centre of everything we do. I hope that our patients and the local community will be reassured by this seal of approval and continue to make Poole their hospital of choice’.
Date: 24 October 2008