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West Cornwall Hospital

Provider Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South West Last inspected 14 Jul 2026

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 14 July 2026. 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 from 10 to 11 March 2026. West Cornwall Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at surgery services only which were rated requires improvement in our last assessment. At this assessment, the rating has improved to good. The rating from surgery has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last assessments and the overall rating of West Cornwall Hospital remains good. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at West Cornwall Hospital.

Ratings by service

Surgery
Good
Dec 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: 27 May 2022
Rating extracted from this report: Inspected but not rated
Actions indexed: 8 should-do

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AI-extracted 3 Jun 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 8 should-do

Should-do actions (8)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 8
Should do
Safe
The service should explore ways to reduce risk of harm to acutely unwell patients who remain at West Cornwall Urgent Treatment Centre overnight.
Should-do action 2 of 8
Should do
Safe
The service should improve compliance with safeguarding checklist before patients are discharged from the urgent treatment centre.
Should-do action 3 of 8
Should do
Responsive
The service should improve communication with trust-wide bed management colleagues to ensure consistency regarding potential patient discharges.
Should-do action 4 of 8
Should do
Well-led
The service should continue with recruitment to improve staffing levels for nurses and medical staff to full establishment.
Should-do action 5 of 8
Should do
Safe
The service should improve compliance in adult and paediatric Level 2 basic life saving and infection and prevention control Level 2 training
Should-do action 6 of 8
Should do
Well-led
The service should encourage staff to submit quality improvement ideas to facilitate staff input to improve the service.
Should-do action 7 of 8
Should do
Responsive
The service should improve hospital signs to confirm availability of urgent treatment care services.
Should-do action 8 of 8
Should do
Well-led
The service should improve staff appraisal and career development compliance.