Justin Madders – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Justin Madders on 2016-10-10.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the most recent rating by the Care Quality Commission was of each Ambulance Trust.
Mr Philip Dunne
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is the independent regulator of health and adult social care providers in England. Following an inspection the CQC rate providers on a four point scale running from outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate. In addition to an aggregate rating at a provider level, the CQC produces ratings for individual services and locations. The CQC has provided the following information:
The CQC began its new inspection approach in September 2013. Since then the CQC has undertaken a comprehensive first rating inspection at all National Health Service trusts it committed to; non-specialist acute trusts, community trusts, mental health trusts, ambulances and specialist acute trusts. The deadlines for each were met, namely, March 2016 for acute non-specialists and June 2016 for the other commitments. As all inspections for ambulance trusts have been completed, the majority of inspection reports have been published. Those that are not yet published are undergoing the factual accuracy process and will be published by the end of 2016.
The table below sets out the 10 NHS ambulance trusts that are registered with CQC, their overall rating (where applicable) and the date the inspection report was published.
Registered ambulance trusts1 with overall rating under new inspection regime where applicable (as at 11 October 2016)
|
Provider Name |
Latest overall rating |
Publication date |
|
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
Requires improvement |
21 August 2015 |
|
London Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
Inadequate |
27 November 2015 |
|
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
Requires improvement |
10 May 2016 |
|
East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
Requires improvement |
9 August 2016 |
|
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
Good |
20 September 2016 |
|
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
Inadequate |
29 September 2016 |
|
South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
Requires improvement |
6 October 2016 |
|
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
Report not yet published |
To be confirmed |
|
North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
Report not yet published |
To be confirmed |
|
West Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
Report not yet published |
To be confirmed |
1 Registered NHS Healthcare Organisation providers and active NHS Healthcare Organisation locations with primary inspection category of Ambulance Service. Ratings supplied are the overall for the trust, not that specific to Patient Transport Services. In addition, one trust, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, has a rating for Patient Transport Services but is excluded from the data supplied because it is not an ambulance trust.
