Source · CQC inspection

Whiston Hospital

Provider Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region North West Last inspected 19 Dec 2024

Overall rating: Good View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions

Safe

Good

Effective

Good

Caring

Outstanding

Responsive

Good

Well-led

Good

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

From 2024 CQC rates services through ongoing assessments rather than comprehensive inspections.

Good Assessed 19 December 2024

The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.

Date of assessment 27 February to 19 June 2024. We conducted an on-site, focussed assessment visit of urgent and emergency care services on 25 March 2024 in response to concerns around access and flow and care of patients in non-clinical areas. We assessed a small number of quality statements from the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions. The scores for these areas have been combined with scores based on the key question ratings from the last inspection. Therefore, our overall rating for urgent and emergency care remains requires …

Ratings by service

Urgent and emergency services

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.

Breaches identified (2)

Breach Safe

During the assessment we identified 4 regulatory breaches relating to the key question for safe, where we told the service it needs to make improvements.

· 19 Dec 2024

Breach Safe

We found 5 breaches of the legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing and governance.

Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 12 Dec 2024

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 3 should-do

Should-do actions (3)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 3

Should do

Well-led

The serviceshouldensureavisionandstrategyisdevelopedfortheservicethatincorporatesrecommendationsfromtheOckendenreport.

Should-do action 2 of 3

Should do

Safe

The serviceshouldcontinuetomonitorandtakeactiontoensurebabyobservationsarecompletedinlinewithnationalandtrustguidance.

Should-do action 3 of 3

Should do

Safe

The serviceshouldensurestaffdiscardingorwitnessingepiduralinfusionssignthecontrolleddrugregisterandrecordtheactualamountadministered.

Location details

CQC ID: RBN01

Local authority: Knowsley

Region: North West

Inspection report

Type: Location

Date: 5 April 2024

Rating: Good

Actions: 3 should-do

AI-extracted 3 Jun 2026

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