Ipswich Hospital

⚠ Mandatory training and safeguarding training completion rates did not meet the trust’s completion target

⚠ Mandatory training and safeguarding training completion rates did not meet the trust’s completion target and prompts to lead staff to explore potential types of abuse were limited to only physical signs.

⚠ There was a lack of effective process to monitor equipment servicing to ensure items were safe for use, and there were gaps in checking of resuscitation equipment.

⚠ At the time of inspection there was no formalised risk assessment process to ensure that the area in majors used for mental health assessments was safe and suitable for use.

⚠ Not all equipment was up to date with routine electrical testing. There was no clear process for monitoring items of equipment that were not available for electrical safety testing to ensure these were rebooked in a timely manner.

⚠ The processes in place to ensure that daily checks were completed on resuscitation trolleys were not always followed. We found gaps in monitoring in the records that were reviewed on site. There were two resuscitation trolleys where the records had been removed completely.

⚠ Mandatory training and safeguarding training completion rates for medical staff did not meet the trust’s completion target. 44% of medical staff had completed safeguarding level 3 training and 36% had completed basic life support training.

⚠ Compliance with mandatory training was lower that the trust target of 95%, as was safeguarding level three training at 79%.

⚠ Completion of the ‘First hour of care’ documentation on the neonatal unit by medical staff was poor. We reviewed five of these documents and medical staff had not completed any of them.