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Wexham Park Hospital

Provider Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South East Last inspected 28 Aug 2025

Overall rating: Outstanding  View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Outstanding
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Outstanding

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

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

Outstanding Assessed 28 August 2025
The service is performing exceptionally well.
Date of assessment: 11 to 12 March 2025. Wexham Park Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at urgent and emergency care and medical care including older people's care. We rated urgent and emergency services as good. We rated medical care as outstanding. The rating 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 Wexham Park Hospital. The rating of Wexham Park Hospital improved to outstanding.In our assessment …

Ratings by service

Medical care (Including older people's care)
Outstanding
Feb 2025
Medical care (Including older people's care)
Outstanding
Feb 2025
Urgent and emergency services
Good
Feb 2025
Urgent and emergency services
Good
Feb 2025

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 2 must-do 9 should-do

Must-do actions (2)

Legal requirements based on regulation breaches identified during inspection.

Must-do action 1 of 2
Must do
Safe
The trust must ensure that all staff complete the required mandatory training.
Regulation: Regulation 12
⚠ Mandatory and safeguarding training figures showed not all staff were up to date with their training including key skills, such as, multidisciplinary obstetric emergency skills and drills and safeguarding training.
Must-do action 2 of 2
Must do
Well-led
The service must ensure data showing poor performance is investigated, monitored, and acted upon in a timely way.
Regulation: Reg17
⚠ Implementation of a new end-to-end IT system in June 2022 had meant accurate data extraction and audits could not take place effectively, and the service did not have access to a live maternity dashboard to monitor performance indicators.

Should-do actions (9)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 9
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure correct and effective use of MEOWS and NEWTT charts to accurately identify deteriorating patients.
Should-do action 2 of 9
Should do
Well-led
The service should continue to ensure there is an accurate overview of risks faced, including how assurance is gained in the absence of a live maternity dashboard or ability to extract all suitable data from IT systems.
Should-do action 3 of 9
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure there are bespoke guidelines in place for women presenting in advanced labour to the maternity assessment centre.
Should-do action 4 of 9
Should do
Well-led
The service should ensure maternal and baby readmissions are reported and reviewed separately.
Should-do action 5 of 9
Should do
Well-led
The service should ensure all staff have had an appraisal.
Should-do action 6 of 9
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure incidents are graded appropriately.
Should-do action 7 of 9
Should do
Well-led
The service should ensure policies and guidelines are up-to-date, and there are effective processes in place to manage them.
Should-do action 8 of 9
Should do
Safe
The service should continue work on completing guidelines for maintaining safe levels of inhalational nitrous oxide on the maternity unit.
Should-do action 9 of 9
Should do
Well-led
The service should consider the addition of a supernumerary co-ordinator to oversee staff and acuity across the whole maternity unit effectively.

Location details

CQC ID: RDU50
Local authority: Slough
Region: South East

Inspection report

Type: Location
Date: 13 September 2023
Rating: Good
Actions: 2 must-do 9 should-do
AI-extracted 3 Jun 2026