HOSPITAL bosses say a detailed action plan has been drawn up in response to safety issues raised during a five-day inspection.

Salisbury District Hospital received an overall ‘requires improvement’ rating from the Care Quality Commission (CQC) despite rating are and effectiveness in core services as ‘good’.

In total nine core services were assessed from emergency and maternity to surgery and end of life care.

At a Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust board meeting earlier this month, chief executive Peter Hill said: “The CQC report came out just after the last board meeting two months ago and we held a Quality Summit on April 6 where all agencies met to discuss plans for improvements or actions.

“We received incredibly positive feedback from the chairman of the CQC in the south.

“However there were issues we needed to address including documentation, paper records, skill mix, nursing ratios and the outpatient database issues in spinal.

“As a result of that we have developed an action plan.”

In a report for the board meeting, Mr Hill said: “In terms of staff engagement on the action plan itself, we held a number of internal workshops around each of the nine core services and these proved very successful and influenced our overall Trust-wide action plan which has now been submitted to the CQC, NHS Improvement and NHS England.”

Nursing director Lorna Wilkinson told the board meeting the “very practical and detailed” action plan would be regularly monitored to ensure progress in each area.

The action plan aims to achieve a ‘good’ rating on re-inspection.