Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Holtye Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex, RH19 3DZ.

This organisation became a foundation trust in July 2004.

Annual Health Check rating for 2007/2008

Quality of services

 Rating: Excellent

This score covers a range of areas including safety of patients, cleanliness and waiting times

How this trust performed previously:
Year Rating
2006/2007 Excellent
How this trust performed previously:
Year Rating
2005/2006 Fair
The quality of services score is made up of the following assessments:
Component Rating
Meeting core standards Fully met
Existing national targets Fully met
New national targets Excellent

Use of resources

 Rating: Excellent

This score looks at how well the organisation manages its finances.

How this trust performed previously:
Year Rating
2006/2007 Excellent
How this trust performed previously:
Year Rating
2005/2006 Excellent

Summary

Based on our assessment for 2007/08, Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust continued to provide an excellent quality of service to patients, having made significant improvements after the first year of the annual health check. It has continued to be excellent at managing its finances for the last three years.

The trust was not one of those chosen to receive an inspection over the summer.

In a recent survey of trusts in England, patients rated this organisation as 'satisfactory' in terms of their overall experience.

Information for patients

Our assessments look at how well healthcare organisations perform in a number of different areas of interest to patients and the public. The scores below show how many of our assessments were met for Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

  • Safety and cleanliness: 13/13
  • Standard of care: 6/6
  • Waiting to be seen: 11/11
  • Dignity and respect: 10/10
  • Keeping the public healthy: 3/3
  • Good management: 16/16

Registration for the management of infection

This trust is meeting registration requirements to protect people from the risk of infection.

Focus on services

Other information


The Care Quality Commission replaced the Healthcare Commission, the Commission for Social Care Inspection and the Mental Health Act Commission in April 2009. Where the following pages of this website refers to "we" or "our assessments" this is a reference to the Healthcare Commission up until 31 March 2009 and to the Care Quality Commission from 1 April 2009.