Learning Disability Service in Leeds receives quality report from inspectors
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published a quality report following an unannounced inspection they conducted of the Parkside Lodge facility on 4 April 2016.
Parkside Lodge is a 12 bed mixed sex acute assessment and treatment inpatient unit for people with a learning disability or autism.
In their report the inspection team highlight five areas of good practice and three areas for improvement.
The areas of good practice were:
- Prescription records were being reviewed for all patients
- Alterations being made to the seclusion room
- Multi-disciplinary meetings taking place twice a week with decisions and outputs that clearly influenced patients’ care plans
- Patients received regular physical health checks
- Staff had regular supervision and appraisals with specialist training being available
The inspection team highlighted the following areas for improvement:
- Identification of all ligature risks
- Cleanliness of the kitchen
- Training in the 2015 Mental Health Act code of practice
Anthony Deery, Director of Nursing, Professions and Quality at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, said: “We welcome the CQC’s report and the opportunity this gives us to learn and improve from their external scrutiny.
“I would like to congratulate the team at Parkside Lodge for what I can see is a mostly positive report. It is clear that patients are at the centre of their work and this was also reflected in comments made by inspectors throughout the report.
“We of course take any concerns raised by the CQC very seriously. We’ve put an action plan in place to address the areas for improvement. I am confident that issues have either been addressed issues immediately or will have been within a reasonable timescale.”
A selection of comments from the Parkside Lodge report:
“Staff had a good understanding of the Mental Health Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards . . . we saw evidence of best interests meetings being carried out.”
“There were several incidents involving one patient. We found staff had managed this patient very well and had implemented measures to reduce the occurrence of incidents.”
“. . . the service managed the deployment of staff very well.”
“We saw good positive behaviour support plans in patients’ care plans.”