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Arrowe Park Hospital

Provider Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region North West Last inspected 24 Oct 2025

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 24 October 2025. 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
The service is not performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
At our last assessment we rated this key question requires improvement. At this assessment, the rating has remained requires improvement. 

Ratings by service

Medical care (Including older people's care)
Requires Improvement
Apr 2025
Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Apr 2025
Medical care (Including older people's care)
Requires Improvement
Mar 2025
Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Mar 2025

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: 10 August 2023
Rating extracted from this report: Requires Improvement
Actions indexed: 2 should-do

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AI-extracted 3 Jun 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 2 should-do

Should-do actions (2)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 2
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure the staffing model and deployment used in triage does not delay access to assessment and treatment.
Should-do action 2 of 2
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure there are no out of date medicines within medicine stocks.