24 October 2013
During an inspection looking at part of the service
At this inspection we found the hospital inpatient unit was closed again. The inpatient unit had previously been closed in January 2013 but had re opened for admissions on 5th July 2013. We contacted the hospital in August 2013 and were informed the hospital had re-opened. When we visited again in October 2013 we were told that the hospital had closed again at the end of September due to a shortage of staff. We (the CQC) had not been informed that the hospital inpatient unit had again closed. We were unable to check compliance against the breach of Regulation found in September 2012. Therefore the hospital remains non compliant.