Source · CQC inspection

The Royal Bournemouth Hospital

Provider University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South West Last inspected 27 Mar 2026

Overall rating: Requires Improvement View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions

Safe

Requires Improvement

Effective

Good

Caring

Good

Responsive

Good

Well-led

Requires Improvement

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

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

Requires Improvement Assessed 27 March 2026

The service is not performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.

Date of assessment: 16 and 27 September 2025. The Royal Bournemouth Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services.The rating from maternity has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at The Royal Bournemouth Hospital. The rating of Royal Bournemouth hospital is requires improvement.

Ratings by service

Maternity

Requires Improvement

Mar 2026

Surgery

Requires Improvement

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 Well-led

Following the assessment and review of the information received there was a breach of regulation 17 for governance.

Regulation: Regulation 17 (Good governance) · 27 Mar 2026

Breach Safe

The service was in breach of the legal regulations in relation to, safe care and treatment and good governance.

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

Location details

CQC ID: R0D02

Local authority: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Region: South West