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Milton Keynes Hospital

Provider Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South East Last inspected 3 Oct 2025

Location rating: Good  View location on CQC

Location ratings by domain

Five CQC key questions

Ratings held for this CQC location under the Single Assessment Framework, assessed 3 October 2025. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good

CQC assessments indexed

Single Assessment Framework

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

Good
The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.
Date of assessment: 31 July 2024 – 1 August 2024. Milton Keynes Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at maternity services, which we rated as good. The rating of maternity has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Milton Keynes Hospital. The rating of Milton Keynes Hospital remains good This was a focussed inspection, and we inspected quality statements across safe and well led. We identified …

Ratings by service

Maternity
Good
Oct 2025
Urgent and emergency services
Good
Apr 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 (1)

Breach Well-led
We identified breaches in regulation 18 staffing, regulation 17 good governance and regulation 15 premises and equipment.
Regulation: Regulation 18 (Staffing) · 3 Oct 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: 5 July 2023
Rating extracted from this report: Good
Actions indexed: 4 should-do

Read this inspection PDF

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
Caring
The trust should consider ensuring the bereavement room is soundproof to improve the experience of bereaved women and families who have experienced a loss.
Should-do action 2 of 4
Should do
Well-led
The trust should continue to improve the incidents reporting process in the service.
Should-do action 3 of 4
Should do
Well-led
The trust should continue to address the vacancy and sickness rates in maternity staffing.
Should-do action 4 of 4
Should do
Effective
The trust should continue to address the high smoking rates of pregnant women at booking and post delivery.