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The Barkantine Centre

Provider Barts Health NHS Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region London Last inspected 17 Jan 2023

Location rating: Inadequate  View location on CQC

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Five CQC key questions

Ratings held for this CQC location under the inspection framework, last inspected 17 January 2023. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

Safe
Inadequate
Effective
Not Yet Rated
Caring
Not Yet Rated
Responsive
Not Yet Rated
Well-led
Inadequate

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Type: Location
Date: 17 January 2023
Rating extracted from this report: Inadequate
Actions indexed: 3 must-do

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AI-extracted 2 Jun 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 3 must-do

Must-do actions (3)

Legal requirements based on regulation breaches identified during inspection.

Must-do action 1 of 3
Must do
Safe
improving the quality of risk assessments for women and babies
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
⚠ Risks could not be sufficiently evaluated at the time of this inspection. Improvement in the completion of risk assessments could not be reviewed as part of this inspection as intrapartum care was not being delivered.
Must-do action 2 of 3
Must do
Safe
improving monitoring of early warning scores
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
⚠ Risks could not be sufficiently evaluated at the time of this inspection. Use of MEOWS could not be evaluated as part of this inspection as the service had been closed to intrapartum care.
Must-do action 3 of 3
Must do
Safe
secure management of controlled medicines
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
⚠ Risks could not be sufficiently evaluated at the time of this inspection. At the time of this inspection there were no controlled drugs on site. Managers for the service stated that controlled drugs would be restored to the service when they reopened for intrapartum care.