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Southmead Hospital

Provider North Bristol NHS Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region South West Last inspected 6 Nov 2024

Archived This service was archived (deregistered) by CQC on 1 Jul 2026. The ratings below are historical and do not reflect a current service.

Location rating: Good  View location on CQC

Location ratings by domain

Five CQC key questions

Ratings held for this CQC location under the Single Assessment Framework, assessed 6 November 2024. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Outstanding
Responsive
Requires Improvement
Well-led
Outstanding

CQC assessments indexed

Single Assessment Framework

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

Good
The service is performing well and meeting our expectations.
North Bristol NHS Trust is an acute trust located in Bristol that provides acute hospital services and some community services to people in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. We undertook an unannounced on-site assessment of 2 medical and surgical wards and the Intensive Care Unit at Southmead hospital on 22 January 2024 in response to concerns we received about the training of current staff and whether the trust ensured all new staff received ongoing training. We also sought assurance from the trust through discussion with the senior leadership team, …

Ratings by service

Medical care (Including older people's care)
Good
Jan 2024
Surgery
Good
Jan 2024

Most recent report indexed for actions

The date and rating here are from an individual report, not necessarily the location's latest assessment. Report ratings are extracted with AI; verify the original PDF.

Type: Location
Date: 16 February 2024
Rating extracted from this report: Good
Actions indexed: 10 should-do

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AI-extracted 2 Jun 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 10 should-do

Should-do actions (10)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 10
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure that it improves safeguarding training compliance for medical staff, especially doctors in training.
Should-do action 2 of 10
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure that all areas are visibly clean, and cleaning takes place on Percy Phillips ward in line with cleaning schedules.
Should-do action 3 of 10
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure all staff complete daily checks of emergency equipment.
Should-do action 4 of 10
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure fridges used for storage of items other than medicines are maintained in line with manufacturers guidance and temperatures are checked daily.
Should-do action 5 of 10
Should do
Well-led
The service should ensure that triage wait times audits include data for wait times for a medical review so the service has full oversight.
Should-do action 6 of 10
Should do
Safe
The service should ensure that it continues to maintain the safe storage and monitoring of medication throughout the unit.
Should-do action 7 of 10
Should do
Well-led
The service should ensure the occurrence of medical ward rounds is recorded using an appropriate audit tool.
Should-do action 8 of 10
Should do
Well-led
The service should ensure that potential patient safety events are reported to external systems such as the Learning from Patient Safety Events or National Reporting and Learning System.
Should-do action 9 of 10
Should do
Effective
The service should act to reduce the number of women experiencing third and fourth degree tears at birth.
Should-do action 10 of 10
Should do
Responsive
The service should continue to make improvements to the induction of labour process, to minimise delays to women and birthing people once the induction of labour has started.