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Southend University Hospital

Provider Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region East Last inspected 17 Sep 2025

Overall rating: Requires Improvement View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions

Safe

Requires Improvement

Effective

Requires Improvement

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 17 September 2025

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

Southend Hospital is operated by Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust was formed on 1st April 2020 following the acquisition of Mid Essex Hospitals Services NHS Trust and Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital Trust by Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. It is one of the largest hospital trusts in England, serving a population of over 1.2 million people in Central and South Essex.We carried out an assessment of Emergency and Urgent Care on 27th November 2024, with a focus on Children’s Emergency Department. This service was …

Ratings by service

Services for children & young people

Requires Improvement

Feb 2025

Services for children & young people

Requires Improvement

Nov 2024

Maternity

Requires Improvement

Feb 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.

Warning notice Well-led

We served a Section 29A Warning Notice for Regulation 17 outlining the breaches which required the service to take action to address.

Regulation: Regulation 17 (Good governance) · 17 Sep 2025 · CQC source

Warning notice Well-led

The service was issued with a Warning Notice under section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 under Regulation 17 there is a need for the service to demonstrate significant improvements in good governance and quality of health care.

Regulation: Regulation 17 (Good governance) · 17 Sep 2025 · CQC source

Breaches identified (3)

Breach Safe

Following our assessment of Children and Young People Services the concerns raised demonstrate a breach of Regulation 12 of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and Regulation 17 of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 17 Sep 2025

Breach Safe

Following our assessment the concerns raised demonstrate a breach of Regulation 12 of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 and Regulation 17 of The Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014.

Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 17 Sep 2025

Breach Safe

We found 2 breaches of the legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment and governance.

Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 17 Sep 2025