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Goole & District Hospital

Provider Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region Yorkshire & Humberside Last inspected 28 May 2026

Overall rating: Good  View full CQC report

Domain ratings

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

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

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

Good Assessed 28 May 2026
The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust provide a comprehensive range of NHS hospital services for approximately 450,000 people living in the Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole region. The Trust has three hospitals sites with approximately 750 inpatient beds. We carried out an assessment of the outpatient department at Goole and District Hospital. The assessment commenced with an unannounced visit on 10 and 11 February 2026 by two inspectors. The assessment focussed on thirty-three quality statements under the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led key questions. Following the assessment the …

Ratings by service

Outpatients
Good
Sep 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.

Breaches identified (2)

Breach Overall
We found continued breaches of regulation in relation to waiting times for new and follow up appointments, including performance against the national NHS 62-day cancer performance target.
· 28 May 2026
Breach Safe
At this assessment we identified two breaches of regulations in relation to Safe care and treatment (Regulation 12) and Good Governance (Regulation 17).
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 28 May 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 3 must-do 1 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 service must ensure all MLU staff complete the appropriate level of Safeguarding Adults and Children training in line with trust policy and intercollegiate guidelines.
Regulation: Regulation 12(2a)
⚠ Not all staff had training on how to recognise and report abuse to the level appropriate for their role. Training records for adult safeguarding showed 81% of staff were compliant to level 2 only. All staff involved in planning and risk assessing care in maternity should be trained to level …
Must-do action 2 of 3
Must do
Safe
The service must ensure staff complete an annual environmental risk assessment to demonstrate that the MLU has the appropriate safety checks.
Regulation: Regulation 15(1)(e)
⚠ The April to November 2023 resuscitaire checklists showed staff checked of resuscitaires every week, except for the month of September because the checklist was missing. There was no information provided to show if emergency equipment checks were audited. The division’s risk register did not have any recorded risks that specifically …
Must-do action 3 of 3
Must do
Safe
The service must follow national guidance for risk assessing birthing people and newborn babies at every interval of care.
Regulation: Regulation 12(2)(a)(b)
⚠ Not all antenatal screening had been completed, therefore leaving an incomplete picture of risk prior to births. Service leaders did not provide evidence of individual maternity care audits for Goole MLU. Care records audits for 2021 and 2022 completed at the consultant led unit showed low compliance with numerous aspects …

Should-do actions (1)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 1
Should do
Well-led
The service should undertake timely reviews of audits to ensure findings and recommendations are followed up to ensure learning and improvements.

Location details

CQC ID: RJL31
Local authority: East Riding of Yorkshire
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside

Inspection report

Type: Location
Date: 22 March 2024
Rating: Good
Actions: 3 must-do 1 should-do
AI-extracted 2 Jun 2026