{"id":292588,"date":"2025-07-26T06:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292588\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T06:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T06:23:15","slug":"great-western-hospital-patients-ignored-after-34m-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/292588\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Western Hospital patients ‘ignored’ after \u00a334m upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overall, the Great Western Hospital was rated as requiring improvement.<\/p>\n

Last year’s investment was the biggest ever made at the hospital<\/a>, which has said it has submitted a plan to address concerns.<\/p>\n

CQC’s Neil Cox, said inspectors found a “a mixed picture” in A&E since its last inspection. <\/p>\n

They found its responsiveness had gone from requires improvement to good, while safety still needed improvement.<\/p>\n

Caring declined from good to requires improvement, while the department was rated good for effectiveness and leadership.<\/p>\n

Some patients, Mr Cox said, faced long waits for beds because of pressure elsewhere in the hospital, adding that staff “didn’t always protect people’s privacy and dignity”.<\/p>\n

“Due to limited bed availability, people were cared for in corridors for extended periods,” Mr Cox said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overall, the Great Western Hospital was rated as requiring improvement. Last year’s investment was the biggest ever made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-292588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114918103668087763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292588","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=292588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}