Inspectors give Shropshire's orthopaedic hospital clean bill of health for care

Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital has also been commended for its work by the organisation which regulates foundation trust hospitals.

Trust board members were told the Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried out an unannounced inspection on November 13.

The board was told the inspectors found the Gobowen-based hospital met all the four standards of care expected.

The inspectors looked at standards of care and treatment, the care and welfare of people who use the services, how the hospital safeguards people who use the services from abuse and also looked at staffing standards.

Meanwhile bosses at health sector regulators Monitor, whose role is to protect and promote the interest of patients, say they have not identified any concerns at the award-winning hospital.

Board members were told since the second quarter of the year, which began in June, Monitor's rating for the hospital has been reported with "green" for governance risk, which means that they have identified no issues of concern.

The hospital also received a positive score for its financial risk from the Monitor organisation.

The board was told that the financial risk was at level four, and that the maximum score for this is five, which has currently been achieved by only six per cent of the 145 NHS foundations trusts in total.

The hospital's chief executive Wendy Farrington Chadd said: "I am delighted with the results of the recent unannounced inspection by the Care Quality Commission.

"On behalf of the board I would like to thank and congratulate staff on this fantastic achievement which clearly demonstrates that we are doing things right for patients."

The positive results from the most recent Monitor report comes just months after the regulator raised concerns over the hospital's failure to hit some care targets.

Monitor bosses said in July the hospital was missing some of its 18-week referral to treatment targets.

Bosses said the figures had been skewed because of the nature of the complex spinal surgery it carries out and said further work had now been carried out to get the figures back on track.