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Scunthorpe General Hospital

Provider Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region Yorkshire & Humberside Last inspected 17 Jul 2026

Location rating: Requires Improvement View location on CQC

Location ratings by domain

Five CQC key questions

Ratings held for this CQC location under the Single Assessment Framework, assessed 17 July 2026. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

Safe

Requires Improvement

Effective

Good

Caring

Good

Responsive

Good

Well-led

Requires Improvement

CQC assessments indexed

Single Assessment Framework

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

Requires Improvement

The service is not performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.

Scunthorpe General Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment focused on end-of-life care, which was previously rated as inadequate.The rating for end-of-life care has been combined with the ratings of other core services inspected previously. For a full overview of all other services provided at Scunthorpe General Hospital, please refer to our earlier inspection reports.Following this assessment, the overall rating for Scunthorpe General Hospital remains requires improvement.

Ratings by service

End of life care

Good

Sep 2025

Urgent and emergency services

Requires Improvement

Sep 2025

Urgent and emergency services

Requires Improvement

Oct 2024

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 (1)

Breach Overall

Details on how we score can be found on our website: https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/how-we-do-our-job/ratings You can find further information about we carried out our assessments at: https://www.cqc.org.uk/about-us/how-we-do-our-job/what-we-do-inspection Action we have taken: We found the following breaches of regulation.

· 17 Jul 2026