MENTAL health services in Kirklees have achieved an ‘excellent’ rating.
South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides specialist mental health and learning disability services to people living in the district.
Its hospitals were assessed on standards of cleanliness, infection control, food, patient environment and patient privacy and dignity.
Most of the wards scored an ‘excellent’ rating across the board.
Wards at St Luke’s Hospital in Huddersfield scored ‘excellent’ on food and ‘good’ on privacy and dignity.
This is an improvement on last year’s results and the Trust is now investing over £200,000 in these wards to make sure standards continue to improve.
Stuart Andrews, head of estates and facilities for the Trust, said: "We are really pleased with these brilliant results and very proud.
"It has been a fantastic team effort and I would like to thank all the staff involved."
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."
