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St Peter's Hospital

Provider Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South East Last inspected 5 Dec 2025

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 5 December 2025. 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.
Date of assessment: 11 to 12 March 2025. Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at maternity services following a section 29a Warning Notice in January 2023. The maternity service was previously rated inadequate. The rating from maternity has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The St. Peter’s Hospital location assessment …

Ratings by service

Maternity
Good
Dec 2025
Medical care (Including older people's care)
Good
Mar 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.

Warning notice Overall
This assessment looked at maternity services following a section 29a Warning Notice in January 2023.
· 5 Dec 2025 · CQC source
Warning notice Overall
This was a follow-up assessment following a section 29a Warning Notice in January 2023.
· 5 Dec 2025 · CQC source
Warning notice Overall
We found improvements during the recent assessment and the trust had mostly met their Section 29a Warning Notice requirements.
· 5 Dec 2025 · CQC source

Breaches identified (4)

Breach Safe
The service was in breach of the legal regulation within safe care and treatment in regard to completing daily checks of emergency equipment.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 5 Dec 2025
Breach Overall
There was a delay in informing the trust of the breaches and we have asked the trust for an action plan.While the division had established governance processes appropriate for their service, staff expressed concerns of a lack of an open safety culture within the trust and told us safety was not always a top priority.
· 24 Jul 2025
Breach Safe
However, we found breaches of the regulations for safe care and treatment.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 24 Jul 2025
Breach Safe
However, we found breaches of the regulations for safe care and treatment.
Regulation: Regulation 12 (Safe care and treatment) · 2 Jun 2025