11 August 2011
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has scored highly in the annual inspection of food, cleanliness, infection control and patient environment.
The Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) scores, which were published today, rate the Trust ‘Good’ for Environment, ‘Good’ for Food and ‘Good’ for Privacy and Dignity.
PEAT assesses standards of cleanliness and food in every NHS healthcare site in England. The assessors – including patients and NHS staff – give scores between 1 (unacceptable) and 5 (excellent) for each of the three PEAT categories.
Sheffield Teaching hospitals, which includes the Royal Hallamshire, Northern General, Weston Park, Charles Clifford and Jessop Wing, scored 4 in each category which equates to a Good rating.
Sir Andrew Cash, Chief Executive at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said: “Our staff work really hard to provide the best services and environments we possibly can to our patients and these ratings reflect that. However, we are never complacent and will explore all opportunities possible in order to continue to make further improvements.”
For more information about the PEAT scores, visit www.npsa.nhs.uk
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For more information please contact James Coxon on 0114 2711702 or email james.coxon@sth.nhs.uk