Source · CQC inspection

Poole Hospital

Provider University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South West

Overall rating: Not Yet Rated View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions

Safe

Not Yet Rated

Effective

Not Yet Rated

Caring

Not Yet Rated

Responsive

Not Yet Rated

Well-led

Not Yet Rated

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

From 2024 CQC rates services through ongoing assessments rather than comprehensive inspections.

Not Yet Rated Assessed 6 June 2025

This was a service assessment of surgery services only. Please see the summaries below for surgery. The location rating of ‘insufficient evidence to rate’ is stated as we have not assessed all the core services at this location for University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, and we cannot therefore rate the location overall.Surgery services are provided by University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust at both the Poole Hospital and the Royal Bournemouth Hospital locations. The trust was created on 1 October 2020 following a process of merger of the The …

Ratings by service

Surgery

Good

Nov 2024

Regulatory breaches & enforcement

Current-framework "must do" equivalent

Breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, stated verbatim in the CQC assessment.

Breaches identified (2)

Breach Safe

The service was previously in breach of the legal regulation in relation to safe care and treatment (assessment of venous thromboembolism risk) and good governance (secure storage of patient records).

Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 6 Jun 2025

Breach Well-led

However, we found they were in breach of different areas of good governance (assessment and monitoring of the service).

Regulation: Regulation 17 (Good governance) · 6 Jun 2025

Location details

CQC ID: R0D01

Local authority: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Region: South West