Source · CQC inspection
Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham
Provider University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Type NHS Healthcare Organisation
Region West Midlands
Last inspected 22 Aug 2025
Overall rating: Requires Improvement View full CQC report
Domain ratings
Safe
Requires Improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
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
Surgery
Requires Improvement
Surgery
Requires Improvement
Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Regulatory breaches & enforcement
Breaches identified (5)
Breach
Overall
The 9 regulatory breaches from our inspection in April 2023 had been met, but other aspects of the service needed a focus of attention.
Breach
Well-led
We served the trust with breaches of 3 regulations around the failure to provide timely treatment, not always having safe staffing levels, and improvements needed in governance.
Breach
Safe
We identified a regulatory breach of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, Regulation 12: Safe Care and Treatment in relation to the proper and safe management of medicines, the safe use of equipment, and care and treatment being provided to people who use the service in a safe timely way.
Breach
Overall
We served the trust with breaches within 1 regulation in relation to some people not getting timely care, medicines not being managed safely at all times, and anaesthetic equipment not being checked as required at all times.
Breach
Safe
The service was previously inspected in June 2021 and was in breach of legal regulations in relation to safe care and treatment (Regulation 12) and equipment and premises (Regulation 15).