The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has improved the rating for child and adolescent mental health wards (CAMHS), run by Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust from requires improvement to good, following an inspection on 28 and 29 October last year.
The wards are located across two sites – Mill Lodge and Red Kite View. Both were looked at during this visit.
CQC found a breach of regulation regarding safe care and treatment, in relation to medicines management and mandatory training. The trust has been told to submit a plan showing what action it is taking in response to these concerns.
Following the inspection, CQC has re-rated effective and responsive as good, caring and well-led have improved from requires improved to good. Safe has been re-rated as requires improvement.
Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust remains rated as good.
Inspectors found:
- Staff assessed the physical and mental health needs of people when they were admitted. Individual care plans were developed, reviewed regularly and updated when needed so people received the care they needed.
- Staff worked well across different teams to help support people. They made sure people only needed to tell their story once when they moved between different services.
- The service supported people to live healthier lives and where possible, reduce their future needs for care and support.
- Staff told people about their rights around consent and respected these when delivering person-centred care.
- Staff treated people with compassion and kindness and respected their privacy and dignity. They understood their individual needs and supported them to understand and manage their care, treatment or condition.
- Leaders and the culture they created promoted high-quality, person-centred care.
However:
- Leaders hadn’t ensured all staff were trained in safeguarding to keep people safe, but had plans in place to ensure all staff were trained after the inspection.
- Staff didn’t consistently follow good practice with regards to medicines management, including how it was given to people and records showing what they’d been given.
CQC is also publishing a report from an inspection in July 2024 of this same CAMHS service. This report didn’t publish as soon after the inspection as it should have done due to issues with the changes to the technology CQC uses, which resulted in problems with the systems and processes rather than the intended benefits. Therefore, a decision was made to publish both reports at the same time, so people have the most up to date picture of care. The trust had made improvements to the service at the time of the most recent inspection.
While publication of reports was delayed, any immediate action that CQC needed to take to protect people using services was not affected.
The October 2025 inspection report and ratings supersede the report from July 2024.