NEW: Child and adolescent mental health wards - a core service @HPFT_NHS - have been rated ‘inadequate’, but the #Hertfordshire trust retains its overall ‘outstanding’ rating hsj.co.uk/mental-health/…
CQC says inspection at Forest House, an inpatient unit in Radlett, wasn't "wide ranging enough" to affect trust's overall ratings. Teenagers told inspectors they "didn't feel safe", and leadership within the service was found to have "significantly deteriorated"
Staff morale was low and access to clinical psychologists limited, with reduced ability to provide therapeutic interventions, CQC said. Young people's acuity of illness had increased significantly throughout 2020-21, in part due to covid & "deterioration in MH of cyp nationally"
CEO @karentaylor_knt said demand for service had increased significantly during covid-19. She said in statement: “We are disappointed that we have not always provided the levels of care and support that young people and their families and carers should expect."
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