Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh unannounced inspection August
2011
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh serves the Lothian region. It
contains 911 staffed beds and has a full range of medical and
surgical services. Some services, including cleaning, maintenance
and catering, are provided under a separate arrangement with a
private contractor, referred to in this report as the ‘hospital
service provider’.
We previously inspected the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in
January 2010 and February 2010. These inspections resulted in four
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 the Royal Infirmary
of Edinburgh on Thursday 18 August 2011.
We assessed the hospital against the NHS Quality Improvement
Scotland (NHS QIS) HAI standards and inspected the following
areas:
• accident and emergency
• combined assessment area
• ward 107 (general/vascular surgery)
• ward 109 (orthopaedics – trauma)
• ward 110 (neonatal)
• ward 202 (medicine of the elderly)
• ward 203 (medicine of the elderly)
• ward 205 (gastrointestinal/liver), and
• ward 208 (orthopaedics – elective).
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 the
NHS Lothian for further information on progress against this action
plan.
Published Date: 28 September 2011
