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31.05.2023 - 14:33
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A Stockport hospital where three young women died within weeks last year has been told to make improvements after a number of breaches were reported by health inspectors.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) found child and adolescent mental health (CAMHS) services at Cheadle Royal Hospital to be ‘inadequate’. The hospital, on a whole, was rated as ‘requires improvement’.
The 150-bed hospital provides care to people with ‘diverse nursing needs’, including adults with psychiatric intensive care needs, personality disorders and eating disorders. Mental health blogger Beth Matthews, 26, Lauren Bridges, 20, and Deseree Fitzpatrick, 30, all died at the psychiatric hospital last year - although their deaths are not thought to be linked.
The recent review at three of the hospital’s 13 wards - Woodlands, Orchard and Meadows - revealed that high levels of restraint were being used at the facility, that the health of patients was not being monitored after tranquilisation, nor were side-effects of medications being looked at.
It also found that staff at the hospital, which is also known as the Priory Hospital Cheadle Royal, did not always update risk assessments after incidents, young people did not always have easy access to outside space and mandatory staff training and supervision was below target.
Alison Chilton, CQC deputy director of operations in the north, said: “When we inspected mental health services for children and young people at Cheadle Royal Hospital, we found standards of