CQC inspectors say Walsall Manor treatments are not always prescribed, given or recorded safely.
Inspectors said Walsall Manor Hospital must ensure the safe prescribing of medicines in their latest reportA hospital has been told it needs to further improve its management of medicines to avoid harm to patients.
According to the inspection report, medicines storage had improved overall following increased monitoring from pharmacy. Inspectors also observed practitioners did not always complete or update medicines records accurately, and were sometimes unable to determine whether patients had taken it or not. It also noted a patient left without an inhaler for four days and several hours of delays in the administration of medicines as nurses queued for an electronic storage system.Inspectors found records were not always accurate, with some prescribers not printing names or general medical council numbers