Regulatory breaches and the formal action the Care Quality Commission took on them, as named in CQC Single Assessment Framework assessment commentary from 2024 onward. CQC publishes no separate machine-readable enforcement register, so each record is the breach statement quoted verbatim from the assessment and classified by the action stated there. A letter of intent is recorded separately from urgent action, so an action CQC is only considering is never shown as one already taken.
Coverage: England. Regulatory breaches and the formal action taken on them, named verbatim in CQC Single Assessment Framework assessment commentary from 2024 onward. Scoped to NHS-trust locations by default, so it is not a complete record of CQC enforcement across the whole regulated estate.
Newest content date: 4 Sep 2026. This describes the content held here, not the date this page was opened.
Records written on 4 of the last 90 days; last write 6 Sep 2026.
Publisher's stated schedule: Continuous. That is the publisher's own description, not a measurement of this copy.
We identified breaches of 3 regulations around the failure to provide timely treatment and suitable medicines storage; not always having safe staffing levels; and lack of privacy and dignity.
We identified breaches of 3 regulations around the failure to provide timely treatment, management of substances hazardous to health, not always having safe staffing levels, and improvements needed in governance.
We have requested an action plan to show how the service will meet the breaches of regulation, this will be requested upon publication of the final report.
We found breaches of the regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing, governance and privacy and dignity.
We have requested an action plan to show how the service will meet the breaches of regulation, this will be requested upon publication of the final report.
We found 4 breaches of the regulations in the adult ED relation to safe care and treatment, staffing, privacy and dignity and governance.
We found 4 breaches of regulations relating to dignity and respect, safe care and treatment, premises and equipment and good governance.
The warning notice told the trust it must make significant improvements to the quality of healthcare provided by its urgent and emergency care services.
The warning notice was issued due to breaches of 6 of the legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, premises and equipment, dignity and respect, person centred care, governance and staffing.
Following the assessment, we issued the trust with a warning notice under Section 29a of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 on 1 April 2026.
We found the issues in the Warning Notice pertaining to Musgrove Park Hospital had been addressed.
We found breaches of regulation in relation to safe care and treatment.
We issued a warning notice to improve the safety of women using maternity services at both Yeovil Hospital and Musgrove Park Hospital.
We found most of the issues in the Warning Notice had been addressed.
We found breaches of regulation in relation to safe care and treatment, safeguarding, medicines management and environment.
We found a new breach of Regulation 15 - Premises and Equipment and Regulation 16 - Receiving and Acting on Complaints.
In this assessment we found continuing breaches of Regulation 12 - Safe care and treatment and Regulation 18 – Staffing.
We found a breach of regulation in relation to Regulation 16 - Receiving and Acting on Complaints.
In this assessment we found continuing breaches of regulation in Regulation 12 (safe care and treatment), Regulation 15 (premises and equipment), and Regulation 18 (Staffing).
At the last inspection of the service there were 16 breaches of regulation identified in safe care and treatment, premises and equipment, good governance, and staffing.
There was a new breach of regulation for person-centred care.
The service had made improvements and we found areas had improved, however there were continued breaches of staffing and good governance.
At the last inspection the service was in breach of safe care and treatment, good governance and staffing.
The service was also in breach of person-centred care as people’s privacy and dignity was not always maintained in temporary escalation areas.
At this assessment we identified breaches of staffing and good governance regulation.
The trust submitted representations to the Warning Notice; however, these were not upheld.
Following the inspection, a Section 29a Warning Notice was issued due to significant concerns regarding patient safety and the need for significant improvement.
In March 2023, we identified 3 breaches of regulation relating to safe care and treatment, dignity and respect and staffing.
During this assessment, they remained in breach of these regulations.
In our last assessment of Urgent and Emergency Care in 2023 we found breaches of regulation in safe care and treatment, dignity and respect and staffing.
In our last assessment of Medical Care (including older people’s care) in 2023, we found breaches of regulation relating to medicine management, infection prevention and control, the ward environment and staff training.
These breaches were for regulations 12 (safe care and treatment), regulation 15 (premises and equipment) and regulation 18 (staffing).
We have requested an action plan in response to the above breaches from the provider at the time of publication of the formal report.
An action plan will be requested from the trust to address these breaches upon the final publication of this report.
These breaches were for regulations 12 (safe care and treatment), regulation 15 (premises and equipment), regulation 17 (good governance) and regulation 18 (staffing).
During this assessment, we identified breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
We previously found 3 breaches of regulation around incidents, mandatory training, staffing, records, risk assessment, culture, leadership and governance.
We also found breaches in regulation 17 (good governance) relating to inconsistent record keeping on the electronic patient record and nonadherence to trust policy.
We also found breaches in regulation 17 (good governance) relating to inconsistent record keeping on the electronic patient record and non adherence to trust policy.
We found new breaches in regulation 12 (safe care and treatment), regulation 18 (staffing) relating to safe staffing.
However, we found continued breaches of legal regulations in relation to regulation 12 safe care and treatment relating to mandatory and safeguarding training compliance and medicines management (see specific headers for summary).
We found breaches of Regulations 12 and 17.
We assessed 1 assessment service group at this location to review the progress made following our last inspection in December 2023 where we found breaches of Regulations 12 and 17.
We have asked the provider for an action plan in response to these breaches.
We found 8 breaches of regulation where care and treatment were not always provided in a safe and timely way in line with clinical guidance.
The second breach was in relation to Premises and Equipment.
The first breach of regulation was in relation to Safe Care and Treatment where staff did not conform with the trust’s infection control measures for hand washing and being bare below the elbow.
At this assessment we identified 2 breaches of regulation.
We found 1 breach of regulation in relation to safe care and treatment.
We issued 8 conditions on their registration to improve the safety of women using maternity services.
| Category | Value |
|---|---|
| Regulatory breach | 402 |
| Requirement notice | 13 |
| Warning notice | 114 |
| Condition of registration | 2 |
| Letter of intent | 10 |
| Urgent enforcement | 8 |
The chart shows the mix of formal actions named across the loaded records.
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