Source · CQC inspection

North Middlesex University Hospital

Provider Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region London Last inspected 16 May 2025

Overall rating: Requires Improvement

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions

Safe

Requires Improvement

Effective

Not Yet Rated

Caring

Not Yet Rated

Responsive

Not Yet Rated

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 16 May 2025

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

The North Middlesex University Hospital is a medium-sized hospital with 633 beds and employs just under 4,000 staff, serving a population of around 640,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey. As of 1 January 2025, North Middlesex University Hospital has become part of the Royal Free London group. The hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services, this assessment looked at Maternity services. We carried out this unannounced focused inspection on 28 and 29 January 2025 as a follow-up of the inadequate rating in 2023.The rating from Maternity has been …

Ratings by service

Maternity

Requires Improvement

Jan 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 Overall

Continued breaches were; medical staff training compliance, timely data submission to external bodies, leadership, poor culture within the service and the absence of a fully operational governance team.

· 16 May 2025

Location details

CQC ID: RAL001

Local authority: Enfield

Region: London

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