Kirklees Mental health services ‘excellent’

Jun 16 2009 By Huddersfield Examiner

The annual assessment was carried out in line with the Patient Environment Action Plan Team’s (PEAT) programme, established nine years ago to assess NHS hospitals. Under the programme, every inpatient healthcare facility in England is assessed each year and given a rating of excellent, good, poor or unacceptable.

Wards across South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust were inspected by its own PEAT team.

This includes the Trust’s head of estates and facilities, house keeping manager and infection prevention and control practitioner.

Jackie Storer, support service manager for the Trust, said: "The PEAT programme is all about assessing the experiences of our service users.

"This year’s results are a testament to the ongoing hard work of all the staff involved and their commitment to making facilities clean, comfortable and safe for people who use Trust services."