Southern General Hospital unannounced inspection October
2011
The Southern General Hospital, Glasgow, is a teaching hospital
with approximately 917 beds. The hospital provides a range of acute
and related clinical services. While some services, such as
obstetrics, dermatology and urology, are provided for the whole
city, the majority of services are provided for the south-west of
Glasgow.
We previously inspected Southern General Hospital in March 2010.
That inspection resulted in two requirements and six
recommendations. The inspection report is available on the
Healthcare Improvement Scotland website
http://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org/HEI.aspx.
We carried out an unannounced inspection to Southern General
Hospital on Monday 22 August 2011.
We assessed the hospital against the NHS Quality Improvement
Scotland (NHS QIS) HAI standards and inspected the following areas
on Monday 22 August 2011:
- accident and emergency
- outpatients department
- ward 1 (orthopaedic trauma)
- ward 4 (general surgery)
- ward 5 (orthopaedic)
- ward 10 (urology)
- ward 11 (urology)
- ward 21 (general medicine)
- ward 47 (maternity)
- ward 56 (stroke/stroke rehabilitation)
- ward 61 (intensive treatment unit), and
- ward 63 (neurosurgery).
On Friday 2 September 2011, a further unannounced inspection was
made because of the significant concerns we had about cleanliness
in some wards to ensure the necessary actions were taken to improve
standards of cleanliness. This follow-up inspection found little
improvement. However, patient equipment cleaning had improved. We
inspected the following areas:
- ward 1 (orthopaedic trauma)
- ward 3 (general surgery - receiving)
- ward 5 (orthopaedic)
- ward 10 (urology)
- ward 11 (urology)
- ward 26 (general medicine)
- ward 56 (stroke/stroke rehabilitation), and
- ward 65 (neurosurgery).
The improvement action plan for this inspection has now been
removed from the HEI website, as the inspection took place more
than 16 weeks ago. Please contact NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for
further information on progress against this action plan.
Published Date: 3 October 2011
