06 March 2009
The Healthcare Commission has praised the treatment of military personnel injured on the front line as ‘exceptional’ and rehabilitation services as ‘excellent’.
But the commission was critical of standards at military health care units. Describing conditions at some armed forces medical centres in the UK and abroad as ‘unacceptable’, chair Sir Ian Kennedy said: ‘We identified, for example, that premises weren’t clean, or that they weren’t maintained well, or that they were old and not properly looked after.’
The Ministry of Defence welcomed the review, and accepted there were areas where services could improve, such as the maintenance and cleanliness of some medical centres.
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