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.
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We took enforcement action and served a Warning Notice under Section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act 2008, which requires the trust to make significant improvement to the quality of healthcare provided.
We found breaches of the regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, safe staffing and governance.
We took enforcement action and served a Warning Notice under Section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act 2008, which requires the trust to make significant improvement to the quality of healthcare provided.
We found breaches of the regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, safe staffing and governance.
We took enforcement action and served a Warning Notice under Section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act 2008, which requires the trust to make significant improvement to the quality of healthcare provided.
At this assessment we identified breaches of regulations in relation to Regulation 10, Dignity and Respect, Regulation 12, Safe Care and Treatment, and Regulation 15, Premises and equipment, Health, and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
However, the service was in breach of the regulation for safe care and treatment, in relation to all staff receiving appropriate triage training.
The service was in breach of legal regulation in relation to Regulation 10, Dignity and Respect, Regulation 12, Safe Care and Treatment, and Regulation 15, Premises and equipment, Health, and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.
At this assessment we found a breach of regulation in relation to good governance.
We found 4 breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 in relation to safe care and treatment, environment and equipment, governance and safe staffing.
At the last assessment there were breaches of regulation relating to safe care and treatment and good governance.
However, we rated safe as requires improvement as we found 7 breaches in regulations which related to safe care and treatment, environment, infection prevention control, staffing, and good governance.
However, we found breaches of regulation in safe care and treatment, premises and equipment, good governance and staffing.
As a combined ASG of OPD and diagnostic imaging assessment, this service was not previously in breach of any regulations.
We have requested an action plan in response to the above breaches from the provider at the time of publication of the formal report.
However, we found 5 breaches of the regulations in relation to safe care and treatment and governance.
As well as responding to the Warning Notice we carried out a comprehensive inspection as the last comprehensive inspection took place in 2019.
We carried out this inspection to follow up on concerns where we served a Warning Notice following a focused inspection in March 2025.
We also identified new breaches of regulation.
We found a continued breach of regulation in relation to the management of patients presenting with mental ill health.
We found breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, dignity and respect and staffing.
At this assessment we identified two breaches of regulations in relation to Safe care and treatment (Regulation 12) and Good Governance (Regulation 17).
We found continued breaches of regulation in relation to waiting times for new and follow up appointments, including performance against the national NHS 62-day cancer performance target.
Following inspection, we issued a Section 31 letter of intent due to significant concerns regarding patient safety.
We found breaches of legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, premises and equipment, staffing and governance.
We found new breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment and good governance.
Because of the concerns above relating to governance, the service was in breach of regulations.
At this inspection we identified a breach of regulation of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 in relation to the governance arrangements of the adult outpatients service.
We found 3 breaches of the regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing and governance.
At this assessment, we identified breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing, and good governance.
At this assessment we found breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment.
At that assessment the service was rated good but was in breach of regulations relating to safe care and treatment, good governance, and staffing.
At this assessment we found breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment and staffing.
We found a breach of regulation to safe and care treatment.
At this assessment we found breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment.
We found new breaches of legal Regulations in relation to good governance, safe care and treatment, receiving and acting on complaints and Duty of Candour.
We found continued breaches of legal Regulations in relation to staffing.
There were breaches of regulation in safe care and treatment and good governance.
At this assessment we found breaches of regulation in relation to safe care and treatment and good governance.
However, at this assessment we found breaches of regulation in relation to safe care and treatment and good governance.
Following our assessment, we issued a warning notice under section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 on the registration of maternity services at Croydon University Hospital.
We rated the service as requires improvement due to new breaches of safe care and treatment, leadership and good governance.
At this inspection, we found 3 breaches of legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing and governance.
However, we found 3 breaches of legal regulations in relation to safeguarding, safe care and treatment and governance.
We issued the service with a letter of intent for possible urgent enforcement action on 2 December 2025 and issued a further letter of intent on 4 December 2025 as further questions needed answering.
The service was in breach of the legal regulations relating to safe care and treatment, dignity and respect, and governance.
Following the assessment and review of the information received there was a breach of regulation 17 for governance.
As a result of these concerns, we issued a warning notice in February 2025.
However, we found breaches of legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing, infection prevention and control, governance, access to services and consent.
However, we found continued breaches of legal regulations in relation to staffing, good governance, and complaints.
| 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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