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Spire Methley Park Hospital

Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

Methley Lane, Methley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS26 9HG (01977) 518518

Provided and run by:
Spire Healthcare Limited

Important: The provider of this service changed. See old profile

All Inspections

21 November 2023

During a routine inspection

Our rating of this location stayed the same. We rated it as good because:

  • The service had enough staff to care for patients and keep them safe. Staff had training in key skills, understood how to protect patients from abuse, and managed safety well. The service controlled infection risk well. Staff assessed risks to patients, acted on them and kept good care records. The service managed safety incidents well and learned lessons from them.
  • Staff provided good care and treatment, gave patients enough to eat and drink, and gave them pain relief when they needed it. Managers monitored the effectiveness of the service and made sure staff were competent. Staff worked well together for the benefit of patients, advised them on how to lead healthier lives, supported them to make decisions about their care, and had access to good information. Key services were available seven days a week.
  • Staff treated patients with compassion and kindness, respected their privacy and dignity, took account of their individual needs, and helped them understand their conditions. They provided emotional support to patients, families and carers.
  • The service planned care to meet the needs of local people, took account of patients’ individual needs, and made it easy for people to give feedback. People could access the service when they needed it and did not have to wait too long for treatment.
  • Leaders ran services well using reliable information systems and supported staff to develop their skills. Staff understood the service’s vision and values, and how to apply them in their work. Staff felt respected, supported and valued. They were focused on the needs of patients receiving care. Staff were clear about their roles and accountabilities. The service engaged well with patients and the community to plan and manage services and all staff were committed to improving services continually.

However:

Overall;

  • The provider should ensure pharmacists receive either supervision to support them or undertake competency assessments from another pharmacy professional to ensure clinical effectiveness.

1 to 2 and 17 November 2016

During an inspection looking at part of the service

Spire Methley Park Hospital is operated by Spire Healthcare Limited. The hospital has 24 inpatient beds including three operating theatres, outpatient department, diagnostic and imaging facilities. At the time of inspection, the hospital was undergoing building work and the number of beds had temporarily been reduced to 16.

The hospital provides surgery and outpatients and diagnostic imaging. We inspected surgery, outpatient department, diagnostic and imaging facilities. The hospital had stopped providing services for children and young people (below the age of 18) prior to our inspection to enable a full review of services in line with latest national guidelines.

We inspected this service using our comprehensive inspection methodology. We carried out the announced part of the inspection on 1 and 2 November 2016, along with an unannounced visit to the hospital on 17 November 2016.

To get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment, we ask the same five questions of all services: are they safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs, and well-led? Where we have a legal duty to do so we rate services’ performance against each key question as outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.

Throughout the inspection, we took account of what people told us and how the provider understood and complied with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

The main service provided by this hospital was surgery. Where our findings on surgery – for example, management arrangements – also apply to other services, we do not repeat the information but cross-refer to the surgery core service. See surgery section for main findings.

We rated this hospital as good overall.

We found good practice in relation to surgery, diagnostics and outpatient care:

  • There were sufficient qualified, skilled and experienced staff to meet people’s needs. The service managed staffing effectively. Staff teams and services worked together effectively to deliver good care.

  • The hospital had good systems and processes in place to protect people from abuse and avoidable harm. There were systems in place for incident reporting, staff knew how to use them and learning was shared to prevent recurrence.

  • We found patient care, treatment and support achieved good outcomes and helped patients to maintain their quality of life, based on the best available evidence. There were clear pathways of care and staff were able to recognise and respond to warning signs of deteriorating health.

  • All staff showed a caring approach to their patients. We saw patients treated with dignity and respect and feedback from patients was positive.

  • The provider met national indicators for referral to treatment (RTT) waiting times. The service took account of the different individual needs of people using the service, including those living with dementia and learning disabilities.

  • Staff had worked closely with the local Healthwatch; they had done environment checks and assessed the hospital for dementia and learning disability friendliness. They had worked closely together to design a dementia friendly room as part of the new building work.

  • Leaders were visible, promoted an open and fair culture. Staff felt listened to and said the hospital was a good place to work. There was a clear vision and strategy and effective governance systems in place to ensure that quality, performance and risks were managed.

There were no breaches of regulations. However, there were areas where the provider should make some improvements, even though a regulation had not been breached, to help the service improve. These were:

  • The provider should implement plans to ensure there is appropriate pharmacy provision at the hospital.

  • The provider should continue to review and revise the risk register to reflect the specific risks for Spire Methley Park Hospital.

  • The provider should consider installing clinical hand wash basins and hard flooring in patient bedrooms as part of the refurbishment programme.

  • The provider should continue to raise staff awareness regarding safeguarding including domestic abuse.

  •  The provider should review the audit programme within the outpatient department.

Ellen Armistead

Deputy Chief Inspector of Hospitals