Source · CQC inspection

Royal Berkshire Hospital

Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South East Last inspected 1 Mar 2024

Overall rating: Good  View full CQC report

Domain ratings

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

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 6 should-do

Should-do actions (6)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 6
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure staff escalate women and birthing people and babies at risk of deterioration appropriately.
Should-do action 2 of 6
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure all staff receive training on learning disability and autism.
Should-do action 3 of 6
Should do
Responsive
The service should continue to improve performance to ensure women and birthing people are triaged in a timely way when arriving at maternity assessment unit.
Should-do action 4 of 6
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure all staff receive regular medicines management training and competency assessments.
Should-do action 5 of 6
Should do
Safe
The service should continue to review the management of recovery care to ensure this is provided by appropriately trained and competent staff.
Should-do action 6 of 6
Should do
Well-led
The service should continue to develop the dashboard to identify patterns and anomalies and ensure variation in data to be investigated or escalated is clearly identified.

Location details

CQC ID: RHW01
Local authority: Reading
Region: South East

Inspection report

Type: Location
Date: 1 March 2024
Rating: Good
Actions: 6 should-do
AI-extracted 2 Jun 2026