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Royal United Hospital Bath

Provider Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South West Last inspected 13 May 2026

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 13 May 2026. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

Safe
Requires Improvement
Effective
Good
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.
Overall location summary: Date of assessment: 21 October 2025 to 28 November 2025. The Royal United Hospital Bath, provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at Urgent and Emergency Services following multiple sources of information received about overcrowding and concerns regarding patient safety, which we rated as requires improvement. The rating of Urgent and Emergency Services has been combined with the ratings of all the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all the other services at the …

Ratings by service

Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Sep 2025
Surgery
Good
May 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
We found 3 breaches of the regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing and governance.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 13 May 2026
Breach Safe
At this assessment, we identified breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing, and good governance.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 13 May 2026

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: 27 March 2024
Rating extracted from this report: Requires Improvement
Actions indexed: 4 should-do

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AI-extracted 2 Jun 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 4 should-do

Should-do actions (4)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 4
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure the compliance for emergency training and adult basic life support training meet the trust target for compliance.
Should-do action 2 of 4
Should do
Safe
The service should make sure all women and birthing people are asked the relevant safeguarding questions at each contact.
Should-do action 3 of 4
Should do
Safe
All staff should be compliant with infection control compliance and hand hygiene.
Should-do action 4 of 4
Should do
Safe
All staff should complete the daily checking of emergency equipment.