Broomhill

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Inadequate

• Caring

  Requires improvement

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Broomhill hospital Northampton provides care, treatment, and support to individuals with

mental health concerns. Broomhill is part of St. Matthews Limited, which consists of four

care homes and four hospital locations in Northampton and Coventry. Broomhill provides

99 beds across 2 core services and 7 wards. Acute wards for adults of working age,

consists of one ward. Long stay rehabilitation for adults of working age consists of 6 wards.

At the time of this assessment the acute ward and one of the long stay rehabilitation wards

was closed. There were a total of 43 patients at the hospital. This assessment looked at the

remaining 5 long stay rehabilitation wards known as Althorp, Cottesbrooke, Kelmarsh,

Lamport and Spencer wards. We only assessed one assessment service group (ASG). At our last inspection the service was rated inadequate in all

key questions; inadequate overall, and was placed in special measures. This assessment

was focussed on the breaches that gave rise to the previous ratings as required under

special measures monitoring. We looked at 22 Quality Statements across all 5 Key

Questions. At this assessment we saw how staff and managers had worked hard to

improve the quality of their care and had engaged well with the Local Authority, ICB and

CQC to bring about required changes. Although the provider had implemented actions and

submitted action plans that addressed all of the concerns we had previously found, many

of the actions had taken a long time to be implemented, and therefore had not had time to

become embedded in practice. Senior managers told us that they recognised that

embedding plans into practice was ongoing and if we were to go back in a years’ time we

would find a very different situation. We found the provider had made sufficient

improvements to improve their overall rating. However, we identified breaches under

Regulations 9 , 12 and 17. Additionally, the Effective key question remains Inadequate.

Therefore the service will remain in special measures.