Trust refutes report claims over patient safety (From This Is Cheshire)

Trust refutes report claims over patient safety

8:30pm Sunday 5th September 2010 in

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WARRINGTON’S mental health trust has hit back at claims it failed to enforce five key safety measures designed to protect patients.

A spokesman for The 5 Boroughs Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said: “We wish to stress that we have not ignored the five outstanding patient safety alerts, which have all been actioned and are completed.

“Charity Action against Medical Accidents stated in their report that ‘it is possible, in theory, that some trusts may not have confirmed implementation of certain patient safety alerts on the central alert system, when they had in fact implemented them’. This is the case with our trust. We will now ensure that these are closed on the national reporting system.”