Belford Hospital
Unannounced inspection
Inspection Date: 8 May 2012
Belford Hospital, Fort William, contains 34 inpatient beds, a 10
bedded day case unit and provides a wide range of healthcare
specialties. This includes consultant-led general medical and
general surgical services. The accident and emergency department is
one of the busiest mountain trauma units in Europe.
We previously inspected Belford Hospital in July 2011. That
inspection resulted in two requirements and three 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 Belford Hospital on 8 May 2012. We
assessed the hospital against the NHS Quality Improvement Scotland
(NHS QIS) healthcare associated infection (HAI) standards and
inspected the following areas:
- accident and emergency
- combined assessment unit
- day case unit
- high dependency unit, and
- ward 1 (acute mixed/acute rehabilitation).
The improvement action plan for this inspection has now been
removed from the Healthcare Improvement Scotland website, as the
inspection took place more than 16 weeks ago. Please contact
NHS Highland for further information on progress against this
action plan.
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Published Date: 18 June 2012
