MID STAFFORDSHIRE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Introduction

In 2008, the Healthcare Commission started an investigation to find out the cause of the apparently high mortality rates in patients are accepted as the emergency situation in the mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust since 2005 and care delivered to these patients. In addition, he suggested that targeting mechanisms for the control of mortality and his scheme to double check that patients have been nurtured for security. Healthcare Commission broadcasting that to know the mortality rate in the Mid Staffordshire Foundation NHS Trust (www.dh.gov.uk).

This move is a response to the figures and facts suggested that the pace of confidence from death may be high, especially in the area of crisis admissions. The Commission was concerned about the effectiveness of schemes for control of the trust mortality. He passed from the primary investigation of the facts and figures on trust and compared it with other trusts. She traveled to trust the two events, and demanded the keys and advised the documentary, relating to the alarm before an opinion, to begin an investigation. Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust

Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust is an acute trust in Staffordshire. This became the basis of trust on February 1, 2008. Trust on two sites, Stafford General Hospital, which has 354 beds and Cannock Chase Hospital with 115 beds. The services that it provides cover a wide range of medical and surgical care. Further confidence is rheumatology expert services to a wider area covering the West Midlands and Wales. Accident and crisis (& E) services are provided at Stafford Hospital. The Healthcare Commission rating of trust as "weak" on the cost of services and 'good' for use of resources within the annual welfare set for 2007/08. As part of this evaluation, the credibility of the major measures of pollution team, decontamination, and clean, well designed environment (www.dh.gov.uk), but not their convergence to reduce MRSA. The Healthcare Commission visited the trust in comparison with the previous Code on HCAIs on 10 & 11 October 2008. At the time of this examination, confidence was indicated Care Quality Commission without the situation based on an assessment of its compliance with the guidelines on HCAIs. The trust shall be subject to inquiry by the Healthcare Commission in 2008. Rates of MRSA contamination of blood on trust, because to the average for the confidence of its type (measured over four quarters from April 2008 to March 2009). Between April 2008 and March 2009, the rate of Clostridium difficile were overhead mean to trust its type. Overheads description is based on proven facts and the latest numbers from the Health Protection Agency (HPA) and to the modern rooms are available with its own web site or trust the MSC website (www.hpa.org.uk). Hospital tests to other health facilities in this area, as well as for their patients' trust. Thus, some described the situation of pollution may not come from the patients to remain within the acute ...