Secretary of State for Health visits Southport hospital 

Secretary of State for Health visits Southport hospital 

Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, yesterday (22 August) visited Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust to talk to staff about improvements in patient safety at the Trust and across the NHS.

Karen Jackson, Interim Chief Executive at the Trust, welcomed the health secretary and Jane Cummings, Chief Nursing Officer at NHS England to the hospital. Sheila Lloyd, Chief Nurse at the Trust then gave a presentation to the health secretary and staff from across the organisation on the work the Trust is undertaking to improve patient safety.

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The health secretary also gave a presentation on the wider work being done throughout the NHS to improve patient safety. Staff from the Trust were also given the chance to ask questions, of which there were many!

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, said: “It was a privilege to meet staff at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust, who do such a wonderful job delivering care to patients.

“I was hugely impressed by the way the Trust is embedding patient safety at the heart of its culture and these important steps will help us all make the NHS the safest healthcare system in the world”.