Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, scored excellent results in this year's Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) assessments. The PEAT programme, which is run by the National Patient Safety Agency, assesses every inpatient healthcare facility in England with more than ten beds, and looks at the environment, food and the privacy provided for patients.

The PEAT programme was established in 2000 to assess NHS hospitals, but has since evolved to include all inpatient healthcare facilities with more than ten beds. Each year assessment teams, which are made up of NHS staff, executive and non-executive directors, patients and members of the public, visit healthcare facilities across the country to assess the quality of environment offered to inpatients.

This year Queen Mary's Hospital was rated excellent for both food and patient environment, and good for patient privacy. Dawes House, an intermediate care facility in Battersea, is also assessed each year and was rated good for both food and privacy, and acceptable for patient environment.

Di Caulfeild-Stoker, Chief Operating Officer of Community Services Wandsworth, said,
“It can be a very stressful time having to stay in hospital, but we try to make sure that our patients are cared for in an environment that makes them feel comfortable. Both Queen Mary's Hospital and Dawes House have done extremely well in this year's assessment, and that's a testament to how hard our staff work to make each patient's stay as pleasant as possible.”

 

July 7, 2009