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CQC Enforcement (Single Assessment Framework)

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.

549 records114 warning notices131 locationsSep 2026 most recent

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.

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Enforcement actions

549 matching records

Nottingham City Hospital

Regulation
Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
Date
25 Feb 2025
Regulatory breachNottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustFeb 2025

We identified 4 breaches in safe care and treatment.

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New Cross Hospital

Regulation
Date
19 Feb 2025
Warning noticeThe Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustFeb 2025

Date of the on-site assessment was 29 October and 30 October 2024.

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New Cross Hospital

Regulation
Date
19 Feb 2025
Regulatory breachThe Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustFeb 2025

During the assessment we found 2 breaches of regulation.

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Queen's Medical Centre

Regulation
Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
Date
18 Feb 2025
Regulatory breachNottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustFeb 2025

We identified 3 breaches of regulation in safe care and treatment.

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Worcestershire Royal Hospital

Regulation
Date
10 Feb 2025
Regulatory breachWorcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustFeb 2025

During the most recent inspection of stroke services inspectors did not identify any regulatory breaches.

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Medway Maritime Hospital

Regulation
Date
07 Feb 2025
Warning noticeMedway NHS Foundation TrustFeb 2025

As a result of these findings, we served a Warning Notice requiring the trust to make significant improvements to the quality of healthcare in the emergency department.

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Royal Oldham Hospital

Regulation
Date
07 Feb 2025
Warning noticeNorthern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustFeb 2025

The warning notice was issued due to concerns we had regarding the trust’s continuous flow model (CFM).

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Royal Oldham Hospital

Regulation
Date
07 Feb 2025
Warning noticeNorthern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustFeb 2025

Following the assessment, we issued the trust a warning notice under section 29 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 on 11 October 2024.

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Medway Maritime Hospital

Regulation
Regulation 10 (Dignity and respect)
Date
07 Feb 2025
Regulatory breachMedway NHS Foundation TrustFeb 2025

In our assessment of urgent and emergency services we found breaches of Regulation 10, 12, 15, 17 and 18 of the Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

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Royal Oldham Hospital

Regulation
Date
07 Feb 2025
Warning noticeNorthern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustFeb 2025

We also identified regulatory breaches relating to responsivity, medicines management, and health and safety that did not form part of the warning notice.

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Broomfield Hospital

Regulation
Date
30 Jan 2025
Urgent enforcementMid and South Essex NHS Foundation TrustJan 2025

We had carried out an assessment in March 2024 where the service was rated inadequate overall and were placed under conditions of service under Section 31 of the Health and Social Care Act to ensure the trust took immediate action to keep women, birthing people, and babies safe.

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Nottingham City Hospital

Regulation
Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
Date
30 Jan 2025
Regulatory breachNottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustJan 2025

We identified 4 breaches of regulation in safe care and treatment.

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Salisbury District Hospital

Regulation
Date
29 Jan 2025
Warning noticeSalisbury NHS Foundation TrustJan 2025

The service was re-inspected in October 2021 against the warning notice requirements, the outcome being removal of the warning notice.

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Salisbury District Hospital

Regulation
Date
29 Jan 2025
Warning noticeSalisbury NHS Foundation TrustJan 2025
The CQC previously inspected Salisbury District Maternity Service in March 2021 and following the inspection received a section 29A warning notice, due to the inspection identifying concerns within the maternity service and there was a need for significant improvements in the...
The CQC previously inspected Salisbury District Maternity Service in March 2021 and following the inspection received a section 29A warning notice, due to the inspection identifying concerns within the maternity service and there was a need for significant improvements in the quality of maternity care.

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Worcestershire Royal Hospital

Regulation
Date
27 Jan 2025
Regulatory breachWorcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustJan 2025

During the most recent inspection of stroke services inspectors did not identify any regulatory breaches.

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Broomfield Hospital

Regulation
Date
10 Jan 2025
Regulatory breachMid and South Essex NHS Foundation TrustJan 2025

During this focused inspection, not all breaches identified at the last inspection were reassessed to include all potential improvements.

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Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Regulation
Date
07 Jan 2025
Regulatory breachGloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustJan 2025

We found 2 breaches of legal regulations in relation to governance which impacted on care and treatment.

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Great Bridge Health Centre

Regulation
Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
Date
20 Dec 2024
Regulatory breachSandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustDec 2024

When we carried out our last inspection the provider was given an overall rating of Requires Improvement with two breaches in Regulation 12 and 17.

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Whiston Hospital

Regulation
Date
19 Dec 2024
Regulatory breachMersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustDec 2024

During the assessment we identified 4 regulatory breaches relating to the key question for safe, where we told the service it needs to make improvements.

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Broomfield Hospital

Regulation
Date
17 Dec 2024
Urgent enforcementMid and South Essex NHS Foundation TrustDec 2024

Following our assessment the overall rated reduced to inadequate and a notice of decision was sent to impose conditions under Section 31 of the Health and Social Care Act to ensure the trust took immediate action to keep women, birthing people, and babies safe.

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Your Health Partnership (YHP)

Regulation
Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
Date
13 Dec 2024
Regulatory breachSandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustDec 2024

When we carried out our last inspection the provider was given an overall rating of Requires Improvement with two breaches in Regulation 12 and 17.

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Whiston Hospital

Regulation
Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
Date
12 Dec 2024
Regulatory breachMersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustDec 2024

We found 5 breaches of the legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing and governance.

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Queen's Medical Centre

Regulation
Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
Date
28 Nov 2024
Regulatory breachNottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNov 2024

We identified 3 breaches in safe care and treatment.

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Medway Maritime Hospital

Regulation
Date
27 Nov 2024
Warning noticeMedway NHS Foundation TrustNov 2024

As a result of these findings, we served a Warning Notice requiring the trust to make significant improvements to the quality of healthcare in the emergency department.

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Medway Maritime Hospital

Regulation
Regulation 10 (Dignity and respect)
Date
27 Nov 2024
Regulatory breachMedway NHS Foundation TrustNov 2024

We found breaches of Regulation 10, 12, 15, 17 and 18 of the Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

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Yarls Wood Immigration Removal Centre

Regulation
Regulation 17 (Good governance)
Date
22 Nov 2024
Requirement noticeNorthamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNov 2024

We issued a Requirement Notice in relation to Regulation 17, Good governance of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.

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HMP Woodhill

Regulation
Regulation 11 (Need for consent)
Date
14 Nov 2024
Requirement noticeCentral and North West London NHS Foundation TrustNov 2024

We issued a Requirement Notice in relation to Regulation 11-Need for Consent, Regulation 12, Safe care and treatment and Regulation 17, Good governance of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.

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Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Regulation
Date
13 Nov 2024
Regulatory breachGloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNov 2024

We found a breach of legal regulation in relation to equipment and premises which impacted on care and treatment.

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Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Regulation
Date
13 Nov 2024
Regulatory breachGloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNov 2024

We found 2 breaches of legal regulations in relation to governance which impacted on care and treatment.

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City Health Campus

Regulation
Date
11 Nov 2024
Warning noticeSandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustNov 2024

Following the assessment, we issued the service with a Section 29A Warning Notice telling them they were required to make significant improvements regarding the quality to healthcare to ensure the trust took immediate action to keep women, birthing people and babies safe.

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HMP Peterborough Prison

Regulation
Regulation 17 (Good governance)
Date
07 Nov 2024
Requirement noticeNorthamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNov 2024

We issued Requirement Notices in relation to Regulation 17 Good Governance and Regulation 12, Safe Care and Treatment.

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HMP Peterborough Prison

Regulation
Date
07 Nov 2024
Regulatory breachNorthamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNov 2024

We found that although some improvements had been made, there was not sufficient progress against the breaches.

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County Hospital

Regulation
Date
05 Nov 2024
Warning noticeUniversity Hospitals of North Midlands NHS TrustNov 2024
We conducted this assessment as a follow-up focused inspection in response to a warning notice issued in 2021and 2022 whereby we notified the trust that the Care Quality Commission had formed the view that the quality of health care provided in relation to the risk management of...
We conducted this assessment as a follow-up focused inspection in response to a warning notice issued in 2021and 2022 whereby we notified the trust that the Care Quality Commission had formed the view that the quality of health care provided in relation to the risk management of patients with mental health needs medicine at County Hospital required significant improvement.

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Whipps Cross University Hospital

Regulation
Date
30 Oct 2024
Warning noticeBarts Health NHS TrustOct 2024

We issued a warning notice to the trust as we felt there were areas which required significant improvement.

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Derriford Hospital

Regulation
Date
29 Oct 2024
Regulatory breachUniversity Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustOct 2024

We rated the key questions and the service overall as requires improvement as we identified breaches of regulations.

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Royal Cornwall Hospital

Regulation
Date
23 Oct 2024
Regulatory breachRoyal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustOct 2024

We found two breaches of regulation where care and treatment was not always provided in a safe and timely way in line with clinical guidance and in an area of the department or correct specialty where it is safe to do so.

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Derriford Hospital

Regulation
Date
22 Oct 2024
Regulatory breachUniversity Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustOct 2024

We rated the key questions and the service overall as requires improvement as we identified breaches of regulations.

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County Hospital

Regulation
Date
04 Oct 2024
Warning noticeUniversity Hospitals of North Midlands NHS TrustOct 2024

Trust have met their section 29a Warning Notice, the service have made significant improvements since our last inspection.

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HMP Bedford

Regulation
Regulation 10 (Dignity and respect)
Date
03 Oct 2024
Requirement noticeNorthamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustOct 2024

We issued Requirement Notices in relation to Regulation 10 Dignity and Respect as well as Regulation 11 Need for Consent, of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

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UHBW Bristol Campus

Regulation
Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
Date
13 Sep 2024
Regulatory breachBristol NHS Foundation TrustSep 2024

We found 2 breaches of legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment and safe staffing.

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HMP Swaleside (Healthcare)

Regulation
Date
19 Aug 2024
Requirement noticeOxleas NHS Foundation TrustAug 2024

Before this assessment, we reviewed a range of information provided by the Trust including the action plan associated with the Requirement Notices.

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HMP Swaleside (Healthcare)

Regulation
Regulation 17 (Good governance)
Date
19 Aug 2024
Requirement noticeOxleas NHS Foundation TrustAug 2024

We issued a Requirement Notice in relation to Regulation 17 Good Governance, of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

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HMP Woodhill

Regulation
Regulation 11 (Need for consent)
Date
13 Aug 2024
Requirement noticeCentral and North West London NHS Foundation TrustAug 2024

We issued a Requirement Notice in relation to Regulation 11-Need for Consent, Regulation 12, Safe care and treatment and Regulation 17, Good governance of the Health and Social Care Act 2008.

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Royal Albert Edward Infirmary

Regulation
Date
08 Aug 2024
Regulatory breachWrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAug 2024

However, during the inspection we identified 6 regulatory breaches where we have told the service it needs to make improvements.

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Royal Albert Edward Infirmary

Regulation
Date
08 Aug 2024
Regulatory breachWrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAug 2024

However, during the inspection we identified 5 regulatory breaches relating to the key question for safe, where we have told the service it needs to make improvements.

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Royal Albert Edward Infirmary

Regulation
Date
08 Aug 2024
Regulatory breachWrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAug 2024

However, during the inspection we identified one regulatory breach relating to the key question for responsive, where we have told the service it needs to make improvements.

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Royal Albert Edward Infirmary

Regulation
Date
11 Jul 2024
Regulatory breachWrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustJul 2024

However, during the inspection we identified 6 regulatory breaches where we have told the service it needs to make improvements.

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Worthing Hospital

Regulation
Date
19 Jun 2024
Regulatory breachUniversity Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustJun 2024

As a result of these findings we have asked the trust to submit an action plan in regards to each breach.

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Worthing Hospital

Regulation
Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
Date
19 Jun 2024
Regulatory breachUniversity Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustJun 2024

In our assessment of services for children and young people we found breaches of Regulation 12, 17 and 18 of the Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

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Records by action taken

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Records by action taken
CategoryValue
Regulatory breach402
Requirement notice13
Warning notice114
Condition of registration2
Letter of intent10
Urgent enforcement8

Data from CQC Enforcement (Single Assessment Framework), published by Care Quality Commission.

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