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Warwick Hospital

Provider South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region West Midlands Last inspected 2 Jun 2026

Overall rating: Good View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions

Safe

Good

Effective

Good

Caring

Good

Responsive

Good

Well-led

Good

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

From 2024 CQC rates services through ongoing assessments rather than comprehensive inspections.

Good Assessed 2 June 2026

The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust provides acute hospital and community health services for approximately half a million people across Warwickshire, and young people and family services in Coventry and Solihull. The trust provides district general hospital services at Warwick Hospital. Community inpatient care is provided at Stratford-upon-Avon Hospital, Royal Leamington Spa Rehabilitation Hospital. The trust also provides community services for adults, children, young people, and families. Ellen Badger Hospital has recently been redeveloped to provide outpatient services for the trust and includes space for community partners to deliver wellbeing …

Ratings by service

End of life care

Good

Apr 2026

Services for children & young people

Good

Apr 2026

Urgent and emergency services

Good

Apr 2026

End of life care

Good

Jul 2025

End of life care

Good

Jul 2025

Services for children & young people

Good

Jul 2025

Services for children & young people

Good

Jul 2025

Urgent and emergency services

Good

Jul 2025

Urgent and emergency services

Good

Jul 2025

Medical care (Including older people's care)

Good

Feb 2025

Medical care (Including older people's care)

Good

Feb 2025

Urgent and emergency services

Good

Feb 2025

Urgent and emergency services

Good

Feb 2025

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.

Warning notice Overall

We carried out this inspection to follow up on concerns where we served a Warning Notice following a focused inspection in March 2025.

· 2 Jun 2026 · CQC source

Warning notice Overall

As well as responding to the Warning Notice we carried out a comprehensive inspection as the last comprehensive inspection took place in 2019.

· 2 Jun 2026 · CQC source

Breaches identified (2)

Breach Safe

However, we found 3 breaches of legal regulations in relation to safeguarding, safe care and treatment and governance.

Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 7 Apr 2026

Breach Safe

At this inspection, we found 3 breaches of legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment, staffing and governance.

Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 7 Apr 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 1 should-do

Should-do actions (1)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 1

Should do

Safe

The trust must ensure that all mandatory training for medical staff can be completed without delays to meet the trust targets, in particular infection prevention and control and safeguarding training.

Location details

CQC ID: RJC02

Local authority: Warwickshire

Region: West Midlands

Inspection report

Type: Location

Date: 19 July 2023

Rating: Good

Actions: 1 should-do

AI-extracted 3 Jun 2026

Related PFD reports

2023-0549 — Andrew Guillaume (Dec 2023)