Updated 1 July 2021
Our rating of safe stayed the same. We rated it as good because:
- Overall, we rated safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led as good. We rated one of the trust’s nine services as outstanding and eight as good. In rating the trust, we considered the current ratings of the six services not inspected at this time.
- We rated well-led for the trust overall as good.
Royal Berkshire Hospital:
- We rated three of the trust’s services at Royal Berkshire Hospital as good. Overall, we rated this location as good.
- We rated safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led as good at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. Safe was rated as requires improvement in two of the three core services we inspected, and good in the other core service. All three core services were rated good for effective, caring, responsive and well led.
- Gynaecology services had previously been rated with maternity services, at this inspection we rated the service separately to maternity in line with our new approach to inspection of this core service. We rated safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led as good,
- Medical care service at Royal Berkshire Hospital had dropped its ratings from outstanding to good in caring responsive and well led, from good to requires improvement for safe, but stayed the same for effective we rated this as good.
- Maternity services had previously been rated with gynaecology services, at this inspection we rated the service separately to gynaecology in line with our new approach to inspection of this core service. We rated safe as requires improvement. Effective, caring, responsive and well led were rated as good.
West Berkshire Community Hospital:
- This was the first inspection at West Berkshire Hospital, we inspected one core service, medical care. which overall, we rated as good.
- We rated safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led for medical care at West Berkshire Hospital as good.
The Windsor Dialysis Unit :
- This was the first inspection of medical care at the Windsor dialysis unit. This location only provided dialysis care which was inspected under the core service of medical care, which overall, we rated as good.
- We rated safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led as good at Windsor Dialysis Service.
In rating the trust, we considered the current ratings of the six services not inspected this time.
Our full Inspection report summarising what we found and the supporting Evidence appendix containing detailed evidence and data about the trust is available on our website – www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RHWZ/reports.