24.04.13
Monitor binds Dorset Trust to leadership improvements
Dorset Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust has agreed to make improvements to leadership and governance, addressing potential breaches of its licence.
With new powers available from April 2013, Monitor has secured a binding agreement to improve issues identified by the CQC. ‘Inability to tackle CQC concerns’ indicates a board-level failure to identify and manage problems, as well as weak governance arrangements, Monitor has reported.
The Trust has agreed to comply will all remaining CQC recommendations, commission an independent review of its board governance and quality governance arrangements, and implement the findings.
Stephen Hay, managing director for provider regulation at Monitor, said: “The trust has failed to tackle long-standing quality issues and we are concerned that this indicates that the board is not performing effectively. Monitor has acted in the best interests of patients to ensure that the trust takes urgent action and will hold it to account if it fails to make the necessary improvements.”
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