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Princess Anne Hospital

Provider University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South East Last inspected 11 Aug 2023

Location rating: Good  View location on CQC

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Five CQC key questions

Ratings held for this CQC location under the inspection framework, last inspected 11 August 2023. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

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

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Type: Location
Date: 11 August 2023
Rating extracted from this report: Good
Actions indexed: 3 must-do 3 should-do

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AI-extracted 2 Jun 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 3 must-do 3 should-do

Must-do actions (3)

Legal requirements based on regulation breaches identified during inspection.

Must-do action 1 of 3
Must do
Safe
The trust must ensure medical staff are uptodate with all training, including mandatory, safeguarding to level2, skills and drills training modules.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
⚠ Not all medical staff were up to date with their mandatory training. Junior medical staff training fell short of trust targets of 95% for information governance and 85% for all other training. Only one junior medical staff member had completed all of the mandatory training. Not all staff had received …
Must-do action 2 of 3
Must do
Safe
The trust must ensure the security of the unit at all times.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
⚠ The security of the wards was not always effective putting the safety of women and birthing people and babies at risk. Not all ward areas were secure due to estates issues with door security. On F-level there was no intercom system to allow the receptionist to speak with visitors before …
Must-do action 3 of 3
Must do
Safe
The trust must ensure staff completed daily checks of emergency equipment.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment)
⚠ Checks on emergency equipment were not always completed on a daily basis. Staff did not always carry out daily safety checks of specialist equipment. Ward compliance for emergency trolley checks was 87.8% for January to April 2023. Daily checks were not always recorded on resuscitaires in the labour ward and …

Should-do actions (3)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 3
Should do
Safe
The trust should continue to monitor and review infection control practices by staff to ensure poor practice is eliminated.
Should-do action 2 of 3
Should do
Well-led
The trust should consider investment in the estate to help modernise the service and experience of the patients and staff.
Should-do action 3 of 3
Should do
Safe
The trust should consider review of training for medical staff for level 3 safeguarding training in line with current guidance.