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WORCESTERSHIRE'S community hospitals - inlcuding Kidderminster Hospital's Minor Injuries Unit - are celebrating further improvement in the latest Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) inspections.

The initiative has been in place within the NHS since 2001 and every year a team of health professionals from Worcestershire Primary Care Trust, along with a patient representative, visits each of the community hospitals to check specific cleanliness, toilets and bathrooms, environment, access, privacy and dignity, food service and infection control.

In the latest PEAT inspections, which covered community hospitals in Evesham, Pershore, Malvern, Bromsgrove and Tenbury Wells, as well as Kidderminster, the majority of scores were put at good or excellent.

A spokeswoman for Worcestershire Primary Care Trust said: "As part of the deep clean process that has been run in conjunction with PEAT this year, we have been able to make considerable improvements to the environment rating by a series of redecoration programmes and the replacement of soft furnishings in our community hospitals.

"The process also now links the PEAT scoring to Healthcare Commission standards, which further strengthens its validity and allows the organisation to make informed decisions of how patient care can be improved."

3:26pm Tuesday 6th May 2008

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