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Peterborough City Hospital

Provider North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region East Last inspected 16 Apr 2025

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 16 April 2025. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

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

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.
The North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust (NWA NHS FT) was formed on 1 April 2017 when Peterborough and Stamford NHS Foundation Trust merged Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust on 1 April 2017. The Trust provides a range of acute NHS hospital services across three sites, as well as Community Clinics at Doddington, Ely and Wisbech. They provide care for 850,000 people living in Peterborough, North and East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, South Lincolnshire, East Leicestershire, Rutland, Bedfordshire and East Northamptonshire. We carried out an assessment of urgent and emergency care (UEC), …

Ratings by service

Medical care (Including older people's care)
Good
Jun 2024
Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Jun 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 Safe
We found two breaches of regulations relating to safe care and treatment and staffing.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 8 Apr 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: 8 June 2023
Rating extracted from this report: Requires Improvement
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 trust should ensure all women receive one to one care during activelabour.
Should-do action 2 of 8
Should do
Safe
The trust should review the triage process around the documentation of women’s admission unto patient records and the transfer of women from day assessment unit to triage.
Should-do action 3 of 8
Should do
Safe
The trust should ensure staff are up to date with their fetal monitoring competency test training.
Should-do action 4 of 8
Should do
Well-led
The service should ensure staff receive safeguarding supervision and appraisal as necessary to carry out their duties.
Should-do action 5 of 8
Should do
Safe
The trust should continue to address the vacancy and sickness rates in maternity staffing.
Should-do action 6 of 8
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure that handovers, ward rounds and safety huddles are structured and not interrupted so that patient reviews are comprehensive and completed safely without distraction.
Should-do action 7 of 8
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 8 of 8
Should do
Responsive
The trust should ensure that it continues to improve the waiting times of women and birthing people attending the triage unit.