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Hinchingbrooke Hospital

Provider North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region East Last inspected 8 Jun 2023

Location rating: Requires Improvement  View location on CQC

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Five CQC key questions

Ratings held for this CQC location under the inspection framework, last inspected 8 June 2023. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

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

Most recent report indexed for actions

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Type: Location
Date: 8 June 2023
Rating extracted from this report: Requires Improvement
Actions indexed: 1 must-do 6 should-do

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AI-extracted 3 Jun 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 1 must-do 6 should-do

Must-do actions (1)

Legal requirements based on regulation breaches identified during inspection.

Must-do action 1 of 1
Must do
Safe
The service must ensure achievement and maintenance of national safety actions. Such as to include full risk assessments of all women and pregnant people at each appointment and improve all pre and post-delivery care documentation. Aswell as to complete and respond to audit findings.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) (1)(2)(a)(b)
⚠ Staff did not always complete all aspects of risk assessments for women and birthing people, including those related to the Saving Babies Lives Care Bundle, CO levels, MEOWS, and sepsis 6 care bundle. The service had not achieved all 10 national safety actions, including ensuring a supernumerary labour ward shift …

Should-do actions (6)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 6
Should do
Safe
The trust should ensure staff were uptodate with their fetal monitoring competency test training.
Should-do action 2 of 6
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure that all service staff attend their safeguarding training and are given protected time to attend safeguarding supervision throughout the year.
Should-do action 3 of 6
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure that safety huddles are not interrupted so that patient reviews are completed safely without distraction.
Should-do action 4 of 6
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure that only experienced healthcare professionals complete telephone triage calls to ensure safe telephone risk assessments recommendations are safe and accurate.
Should-do action 5 of 6
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure that there is always a Supernummary labour ward shift co-ordinator.
Should-do action 6 of 6
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure that it continues to improve the hours of obstetric registrar cover provided for around the clock in Triage and DAU.