Updated 14 September 2020
Grange Park SARC provides forensic medical examinations and some sexual health and aftercare services for adults in Stoke-on-Trent and surrounding areas who have been sexually assaulted. Further details about the nature of the service provided at this location can be found in the ‘background’ section of the report from our initial inspection of this service we published in July 2019
We previously inspected Grange Park SARC in January 2019. At that time, we found the centre was providing, effective, responsive and caring services. There were some breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and governance. We issued a warning notice in February 2019 and the provider sent us an action plan.
We inspected the service again in June 2019 and found that, although the requirements of the warning notice had been met, the change was ongoing and new systems were not fully embedded into day-to-day processes. We required the provider to continue make some improvements. The reports of both our inspections in January and June were published in July 2019.
In July 2020 we carried out a desk-based review of the Grange Park SARC to follow-up on their progress against their action plan. This included a review of documentation previously sent by the service in August 2019, a virtual meeting with the registered manager on 06 July 2020 and a review of further documentation sent to us following this meeting. We did not visit the centre at this time owing to the restrictions on our inspection activity arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
We found that the provider had completed all their actions intended to address our findings from the initial and second inspections. We were assured that the provider had taken positive steps to ensure patients remained safe whilst using the service and there was no longer a breach of the relevant regulation.