Updated
28 October 2024
The Droitwich Spa Hospital is operated by Circle Health Group Limited. The hospital has 46 registered beds offering ensuite faciliries . Facilities include 3 operating theatres, an endoscopy unit, 11 outpatient rooms, a physiotherapy department and diagnostics services including X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
The previous inspection of the diagnostics services published in April 2019 rated the diagnostics service as inadequate. The onsite assessment was unannounced and was undertaken on 6 March 2024.
Our rating of the diagnostics service improved we rated it as good. We found a new diagnostic manager had been employed and all required improvements have been made
We found the diagnostic service met the requirements of the regualations and have not identified any areas of further improvement.
Updated
22 March 2024
Droitwich Spa Hospital is part of the Circle Health Group. Droitwich Spa Hospital provides a wide range of procedures from routine investigations to surgical procedures. The hospital is registered to carry out the following regulated activities: Treatment of disease, disorder or injury; Family Planning; Surgical procedures; Diagnostic and screening procedures. There has been a registered manager in post since the service was registered on 31 January 2022. This assessment reviewed the diagnostic imaging department only. The diagnostics service provides the following: X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), ultrasound and a mobile C-arm fluoroscopic X-ray system. The C-arm is an imaging device that is based on X-ray technology and can be used flexibly in operating rooms. We visited the diagnostics service unannounced on 19 March 2024. We spoke with 11 staff including radiographers, health care assistants, administrators, radiologists, and senior managers. We spoke with 3 patients. We also reviewed 10 sets of patient records. Our last inspection of the diagnostics service was published on 23 April 2019 and rated the service as inadequate. This assessment rated the diagnostic service as good.
Medical care (including older people’s care)
Updated
23 April 2019
Endoscopy services were a small proportion of hospital activity and will be reported under the medical care sub heading. The main service was surgery. Where arrangements were the same, we have reported findings in the surgery section.
We rated this service as good in safe, responsive and well led. Effective and caring were not rated as there was not enough evidence to do so.
Updated
23 April 2019
We rated this service as good in safe, caring, responsive and well led. We do not rate effective in outpatients.
Updated
23 April 2019
Surgery was the main activity of the hospital. Where our findings on surgery also apply to other services, we do not repeat the information but cross-refer to the surgery section.
We rated this service as good in effective, caring, responsive and well-led. The safe key question was rated as requires improvement.