Source · CQC inspection

St James's University Hospital

Provider Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region Yorkshire & Humberside Last inspected 20 Jun 2025

Overall rating: Requires Improvement  View full CQC report

Domain ratings

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

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

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

Requires Improvement Assessed 20 June 2025
The service is not performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
St James's University Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at the maternity service and the neonatal service. We carried out this assessment based on a number of concerns we had about both services. We rated the maternity service as inadequate and the neonatal service as requires improvement. The ratings from the maternity and neonatal services have been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections of St James's University Hospital. Please see our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services …

Ratings by service

Maternity
Inadequate
Oct 2024
Maternity
Inadequate
Oct 2024
Neonatal services
Requires Improvement
Oct 2024
Neonatal 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.

Letter of intent Overall
We raised this concern with the trust through a letter of intent to take further action.
· 20 Jun 2025 · CQC source
Warning notice Well-led
Following our inspection, we issued the service with a warning notice in regard to staffing.
Regulation: Regulation 18 (Staffing) · 20 Jun 2025 · CQC source

Breaches identified (2)

Breach Overall
We found breaches of regulations relating to; learning following incidents, risk management, safe environment, infection prevention and control, medicines management and some governance processes.
· 20 Jun 2025
Breach Well-led
The service was in breach of regulations relating to managing risk, staffing, safe environments, infection prevention and control and medicines management.
Regulation: Regulation 18 (Staffing) · 20 Jun 2025

Location details

CQC ID: RR813
Local authority: Leeds
Region: Yorkshire & Humberside