Beleaguered Barnet Hospital will come under the microscope again in the next six months with a routine assessment by the Commission For Health Improvement (CHI).
The review of the trust in charge of the hospital began last week and will scrutinise its management and the quality of acute general services. It will be carried out by a team including an NHS doctor, clinical professional, a lay person, an NHS manager and a CHI manager who co-ordinates the process.
The review comes just weeks after Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals NHS Trust was named and shamed as one of the 12 worst in the country and worst in Greater London in new NHS performance ratings. Bosses at the trust have until Boxing Day to turn it around or be sacked.
The CHI assessments will focus on three clinical teams at the trust. Before the teams are chosen the CHI will gather information from Barnet Community Health Council (CHC), London Regional Office and arrange a stakeholder meeting next month. The trust will also have an opportunity to say which areas it feels it is strong in and which need improvement. A report on quality of care at the trust will be released at the end of March.
CHI chairman Dame Deirdre Hine said: "We aim to improve the standards of care by focusing on the experience of those using the NHS."
October 17, 2001 16:09
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