• Ambulance service

ION Pinewood

Overall: Requires improvement read more about inspection ratings

Pinewood Estate, Wexham Street, Stoke Poges, Slough, Berkshire, SL3 6NB (01753) 654865

Provided and run by:
ION Ambulance Care Ltd

Report from 16 May 2024 assessment

Ratings - Emergency and urgent care

  • Overall

    Requires improvement

  • Safe

    Good

  • Effective

    Requires improvement

  • Caring

    Good

  • Responsive

    Good

  • Well-led

    Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Date of assessment: 06 June 2024. We inspected the service due to receiving information of concern. We assessed a small number of quality statements from the safe, caring and well-led key questions and found some areas of concern. There were concerns regarding the management of governance, including managers oversight of staff’s medicine management and how these were audited to ensure practice was monitored and safe. However, staff appeared to really care about patients, they were suitably trained and the vehicles were clean and tidy.

The scores for these areas have been combined with scores based on the key question ratings from the last inspection. Though the assessment of these quality statements indicated areas of good practice since the last inspection, our overall rating remains requires improvement.