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Newham University Hospital

Provider Barts Health NHS Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region London Last inspected 17 Jul 2026

Location rating: Requires Improvement  View location on CQC

Location ratings by domain

Five CQC key questions

Ratings held for this CQC location under the Single Assessment Framework, assessed 17 July 2026. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

Safe
Requires Improvement
Effective
Requires Improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Requires Improvement
Well-led
Requires Improvement

CQC assessments indexed

Single Assessment Framework

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

Requires Improvement Assessed 17 July 2026
The service is not performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
Newham University Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services and has 274 general and acute beds. Newham University Hospital emergency department is 1 of 3 emergency departments run by Barts Health NHS Trust. The hospital offers urgent and emergency care services, including an emergency department, urgent treatment centre, same day emergency care and paediatric emergency department.This assessment focused on urgent and emergency care services due to identified risks and the age of the previous rating, which was requires improvement. The rating for this service has been combined with ratings …

Ratings by service

Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Oct 2025

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 (1)

Breach Safe
We found breaches of regulations relating to safe care and treatment and staffing.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 17 Jul 2026

Most recent report indexed for actions

The date and rating here are from an individual report, not necessarily the location's latest assessment. Report ratings are extracted with AI; verify the original PDF.

Type: Location
Date: 17 September 2021
Rating extracted from this report: Requires improvement
Actions indexed: 13 should-do

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AI-extracted 2 Jun 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 13 should-do

Should-do actions (13)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 13
Should do
Safe
The services should ensure compliance of basic life support training meets the trust target.
Should-do action 2 of 13
Should do
Safe
The services should consider staff adhere to the trust uniform policy.
Should-do action 3 of 13
Should do
Safe
The services should continue to ensure all emergency and PPH trolleys are checked regularly and locked.
Should-do action 4 of 13
Should do
Well-led
The services should continue to ensure that interim or long-term estates are prioritised on the risk register to support the midwifery community team.
Should-do action 5 of 13
Should do
Well-led
The services should ensure the medical leadership structure is fully embedded and that all medical staff are aware.
Should-do action 6 of 13
Should do
Effective
The services should ensure the psychological and emotional needs of women, their relatives and carers are referred to during handover meetings.
Should-do action 7 of 13
Should do
Safe
The services should continue to ensure the birthing packs do not contain swabs.
Should-do action 8 of 13
Should do
Safe
The services should ensure all drug charts checked by the pharmacist team are clearly documented and audited.
Should-do action 9 of 13
Should do
Effective
The services should ensure teams responsible for antimicrobial stewardship monitor data and provide feedback on prescribing practice to prescriber level.
Should-do action 10 of 13
Should do
Effective
The services should ensure specialist midwifes are supported and allowed time to fulfil their role.
Should-do action 11 of 13
Should do
Responsive
The services should ensure information is made available to women in languages other than English.
Should-do action 12 of 13
Should do
Well-led
The services should ensure that safety champions are visible and ensure all staff are aware of the safety champions roles and responsibilities.
Should-do action 13 of 13
Should do
Safe
The services should ensure all computers remain locked when unattended.