Source · CQC inspection

Good Hope Hospital

Provider University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region West Midlands

Overall rating: Not Yet Rated  View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions
Safe
Not Yet Rated
Effective
Not Yet Rated
Caring
Not Yet Rated
Responsive
Not Yet Rated
Well-led
Not Yet Rated

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

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

Not Yet Rated Assessed 20 August 2025
This was an assessment of 4 services at Good Hope Hospital, namely medical care (including care of older people), services for children and young people, maternity services, and urgent and emergency care (A&E). Each of these services, with the exception of those for children and young people, had been assessed previously. The overall location rating of ‘insufficient evidence to rate’ is used as we have not assessed all the services provided yet for Good Hope Hospital, and we cannot therefore rate the location overall. Good Hope Hospital is an acute general …

Ratings by service

Surgery
Requires Improvement
Apr 2025
Maternity
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Maternity
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Maternity
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Maternity
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Medical care (Including older people's care)
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Medical care (Including older people's care)
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Medical care (Including older people's care)
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Medical care (Including older people's care)
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Services for children & young people
Good
Jan 2025
Services for children & young people
Good
Jan 2025
Services for children & young people
Good
Jan 2025
Services for children & young people
Good
Jan 2025
Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Jan 2025
Urgent and emergency services
Requires Improvement
Jan 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.

Warning notice Overall
We carried out this assessment following information of concern around waiting times, poor performance indicators and to follow up on the previous Warning Notice and breaches of regulation.
· 20 Aug 2025 · CQC source
Warning notice Overall
Along with the warning notice issued for failures in governance, we have issued requests for action plans against a number of regulations.
· 17 Apr 2025 · CQC source
Warning notice Overall
As a result of our assessment, we issued the trust with a Section 29a Warning Notice as significant improvements were required in relation to governance.
· 16 Apr 2025 · CQC source
Warning notice Overall
The Section 29a Warning Notice has given the trust until 31 December 2024 to rectify the areas for significant improvement we identified.
· 16 Apr 2025 · CQC source

Breaches identified (4)

Breach Overall
This assessment was conducted to follow up on concerns and breaches of regulation identified during our previous assessment published in June 2023.
· 20 Aug 2025
Breach Safe
We identified 2 breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, in relation to Regulation 12: Safe care and treatment and Regulation 17: Good Governance.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 20 Aug 2025
Breach Responsive
We found a breach of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 in relation to Regulation 9 Person Centred Care and Regulation 12 Safe Care and Treatment.
Regulation: Regulation 9 (Person-centred care) · 20 Aug 2025
Breach Safe
We found a breach of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, in relation to Regulation 12: Safe care and treatment.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 20 Aug 2025

Location details

CQC ID: RRK98
Local authority: Birmingham
Region: West Midlands