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Worcestershire PCT ranked a lowly 141st in England A report by an NHS watchdog The Healthcare Commission has found that Emergency Care Services at Worcestershire Primary Care Trust are among the worst performing in England. This places Worcestershire PCT in the bottom group of "Least Well Performing" trusts .. [Fair and Least Well Performing mean the trust areas were not hitting targets or standards] .. with the county scoring badly on answering 'phone calls and out-of-hours services. However, the ambulance services received praise. The Healthcare Commission reported concern about the state of emergency care services across England after looking at
__________________ Neighbouring Herefordshire Primary Care Trust was ranked 40th and was in the "Best-Performing" category. Overall, the commission judged 33% of PCT areas as best performing, 27% better performing, 22% fair performing and 18% least well performing. __________________ Paul Bates, Chief Executive of Worcestershire PCT, [Click here for a link to PCT Board Members..Ed] said improvements had already been made, and that most of its failings related to its GP out-of-hours service which is being replaced.
He added that the new service would be run by a specialist provider using a new computer system and new vehicles.
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here for a prιcis of some of the facts and figures Quotes from the report_ It is pleasing to note that 19 organisations scored excellent
for both parts of the rating. Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (only 'fair' for both parts of the rating last year) The full list of 20 trusts scoring weak for both parts of the overall rating is as follows: Great Western Ambulance Service NHS Trust Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Cumbria Primary Care Trust Devon Primary Care Trust East and North Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust Leicestershire County And Rutland Primary Care Trust Luton Teaching Primary Care Trust Mid Essex Primary Care Trust Sheffield Primary Care Trust Surrey Primary Care Trust West Hertfordshire Primary Care Trust Wiltshire Primary Care Trust The following eight trusts have moved down to scoring weak for quality of services: Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Bath and North East Somerset Primary Care Trust Brighton and Hove City Primary Care Trust Luton Teaching Primary Care Trust Sutton and Merton Primary Care Trust Three of the eight scored not met for core standards in 2006/2007, five scored not met for existing national targets, and seven scored weak for new national targets. MRSA
Of clear concern is the fact that four of the 20 scored weak for both use of resources and quality of services for the second consecutive year: Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust
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