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Torbay Hospital

Provider Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South West Last inspected 23 May 2025

Overall rating: Requires Improvement View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions

Safe

Requires Improvement

Effective

Good

Caring

Good

Responsive

Requires Improvement

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 23 May 2025

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

Date of assessment: 13 August to 18 December 2024. Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at children and young peoples inpatient services at Torbay Hospital because we received concerns about the care and treatment of young people with mental health needs being cared for in an unsuitable setting, which we rated as good overall. The rating from childrens and young peoples services has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to …

Ratings by service

Services for children & young people

Good

Aug 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 (1)

Breach Overall

However, we found 2 breaches of the legal regulation.

· 12 May 2025

Location details

CQC ID: RA901

Local authority: Torbay

Region: South West

Related PFD reports

2026-0085 — Linda Books (Feb 2026)

2024-0113 — Adrian Green (Feb 2024)

2019-0442 — Alice Sloman (Dec 2019)