Ratings
Worthing Hospital was praised for its standard of care in a recent report (2011) by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In the report, entitled Review of Compliance, the CQC said the hospital met “all the essential standards of quality and safety”. Inspectors stated those who used the service benefited from safe quality care, treatment and support due to “effective decision making” and the “management of risks to their health, welfare and safety”. The Trust as a whole (Worthing, Southlands and St Richard's hospitals) had no cases of MRSA bloodstream infection throughout the whole of 2011. At the time of writing (Feb 2012) this is still the case.
In October 2008, the hospital received overall ratings of "fair" for quality of services and use of resources In January 2008, the hospital's maternity unit received a rating of "good", narrowly missing by one point a rating of "excellent".
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