Enter and View Report - Younger Disabled Unit, Leicester General Hospital/Specialist Neurological Rehabilitation Unit, March 2016
Part of the local Healthwatch programme is to carry out Enter and View visits. Local Healthwatch representatives carry out these visits to health and social care services to find out how they are being run and make recommendations.
Summary
The background to this visit stems from a CQC report dated March 2014, which indicated structural problems at Wakerley Lodge, Leicester General Hospital (LGH), which housed the Younger Disabled Unit (YDU). On 05 June 2014 a joint Leicester/Rutland Healthwatch team made an informal visit to the YDU at the request of the Chief Executive of the UHL to assess the physical environment. Their report showed that they found the facilities ‘outdated, depressing, unsafe, unfit for purpose and counter-productive to the intention of rehabilitating patients’.
Objectives
- To observe how the Unit operates and provides its services.
- To collect views of patients, staff and any visitors on that service.
- To identify ‘Best Practice’ and any areas of concern.
- As premises are described as ‘temporary’ seek patient and staff views on their suitability.
- To provide a ‘layman’s view’ on the service provided.
Downloads
Younger Disabled Unit Enter and View Report - March 2016
