{"id":156754,"date":"2025-06-04T06:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156754\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T06:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:11:08","slug":"black-country-mental-health-trust-still-requires-improvements-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/156754\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Country mental health trust still requires improvements &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The overall rating for the service, and the rating for how safe the service is, has again been rated as requires improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The rating for how well-led the service is has improved from requires improvement to good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some staff had not completed mandatory training including basic life support, inspectors said.  The trust said all staff were booked in to complete this.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inspectors also found some wards to be cluttered and some areas &#8220;shabby&#8221; and &#8220;damaged&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">People were allowed to smoke in garden areas which led to a &#8220;a large quantity of cigarette ends and litter&#8221; and there were also exposed sharp edges on doors which people could use to hurt themselves, the report stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, inspectors found staff felt supported and listened to and were confident in raising concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The overall rating for the service, and the rating for how safe the service is, has again been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,218,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-156754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-mental-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}