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
Safe
Inadequate
Effective
Good
Caring
Requires Improvement
Responsive
Requires Improvement
Well-led
Requires Improvement
Current CQC assessment
Requires Improvement
The service is not performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
Ratings by service
Maternity
Inadequate
Maternity
Inadequate
Neonatal services
Requires Improvement
Neonatal services
Requires Improvement
Regulatory breaches & enforcement
Letter of intent
Overall
We raised this concern with the trust through a letter of intent to take further action.
Warning notice
Well-led
Following our inspection, we issued the service with a warning notice in regard to staffing.
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.
Breach
Well-led
The service was in breach of regulations relating to managing risk, staffing, safe environments, infection prevention and control and medicines management.