Greater Manchester's failing mental health service has just been praised after 'unexpected' visit
A troubled NHS service in Greater Manchester has been praised by watchdogs after an unexpected inspection. At the start of December, Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (GMMH) was told by the health regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), that its acute wards for adults and psychiatric intensive care units were found to be 'inadequate'.
But today (December 20), the CQC has said its child and adolescent mental health wards are ‘outstanding’. The CQC carried out an unannounced inspection of the child and adolescent mental health wards (CAMHS) in July ‘due to concerns CQC had received about the service from local commissioners’.
Inspectors visited three wards at Prestwich Hospital, and said that young people there ‘felt safe’, were ‘involved in planning their care’, and that staff had ‘excellent rapport’ with the young people on the wards. “Young people told us they felt safe, and that staff were there to support them when needed,” said CQC inspectors in a report published today. “They said they had the opportunities to be involved in planning their care and that there were lots of activities available on and around the wards. “Young people said that the care they were receiving was supporting them to recover and make progress.” Recent years have spelled scandal after scandal for GMMH.
Two years ago, claims of patients being abused by staff at a mental health unit on the same site as the trust’s headquarters were exposed by Panorama undercover filming.
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