St Luke's Hospital

Updated 22 January 2025

St Luke’s Hospital is the second hospital site and forms part of the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It provides intermediate inpatient care ward, and a wide range of outpatient and therapy services. We carried out a focused unannounced onsite assessment of Medicine on 13 and 14 March 2024 which we rated as good. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at St Luke’s Hospital. The rating of St Luke’s Hospital remains good. In our assessment of medical care (including older people’s care), we found a positive learning culture, and evidence of safe systems and pathways.

Updated 7 May 2024

St Luke’s Hospital provides general medicine wards for adults as well as rehabilitation and therapy services. The hospital also provides outpatient services for adults and children. The Medicine (including older peoples care) Assessment Service Group (ASG); Outpatients and diagnostic imaging ASG at St Luke's was last inspected as part of a follow-up inspection of the trust on 11-13 January 2016 in response to a previous inspection conducted as part of our comprehensive inspection programme of the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in October 2014. Medical care (including older people’s care) was rated as good. We received a number of anonymous whistle blowing concerns regarding safe care and treatment within the assessment service group for Medicine. We undertook an unannounced, responsive, focused inspection. We assessed key questions in safe, effective and well led.

Updated 9 April 2020

Our rating of this service improved. We rated it as good because:

• The service provided mandatory training in key skills to all staff and made sure most completed it.
• Staff understood how to protect patients from abuse.
• The service controlled infection risk well.
• The service had enough competent staff and they worked together as a team.
• Records were clear, up-to-date and stored securely.
• The service used systems and processes to safely prescribe, administer, record and store medicines.
• The service managed patient safety incidents well and monitored the effectiveness of care and treatment.
• Staff treated patients with compassion and kindness.
• Leaders had the skills and abilities to run the service.
• Staff felt respected, supported and valued.

However, we also found:

• Outpatient services were not available seven days a week.