"You will need to manage your own care so be..."

To begin with, the latest CQC report (2014) is 'requires improvement', not 'good' as suggested by the NHS choices site.

Currently complaining so will avoid specific details, but we are very dissatisfied with:

Maintenance and communication of medical records

Ward management

Clinical supervision

Care planning and monitoring

Feedback on progress of care plans

Continuity of care and communication/handover amongst care teams

Communication with patient and carers

Medicines management and safety

Delegation of tasks to non-clinical staff, eg taking blood samples

Understanding of needs of elderly patients with multiple health conditions

Appropriateness of language and attitudes of some nursing, care-assistant and ancillary staff

Responsiveness to concerns and complaints

Etc

There are so many concerns I would actively warn against using these services without rapid, evidenced improvement. If you or your family have to use these services make sure a named, senior person at the hospital takes responsibility for the care plan, explains it to you, monitors it and keeps you up to date and convinces you of the benefit and safety of every element of it.