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Lincoln County Hospital

Location rating Requires Improvement Last inspected 4 Sep 2025 Provider United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust NHS Healthcare Organisation Region East Midlands Local authority Lincolnshire CQC ID RWDDA

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Where it stands

CQC rates this location Requires Improvement under the Single Assessment Framework, assessed 4 September 2025.

The most recent report indexed for actions is dated 3 August 2023, with no actions indexed.

1 regulatory breach and 0 formal enforcement actions are recorded from CQC assessment commentary.

Location ratings by key question (CQC's ratings)

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

On the record

  • Must-do actions, latest indexed report 0
  • Should-do actions, latest indexed report 0
  • Services rated in assessments 2
  • Regulatory breaches 1
  • Related PFD reports 10

These are the ratings CQC holds for the location. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately, under Inspection reports.

Inspection reports

  • Most recent report indexed for actions3 August 2023, rating extracted from this report: Inspected but not rated
Inspection reports

Assessments

  • Location assessmentRequires Improvement
  • Urgent and emergency servicesRequires Improvement, Jul 2025
  • Urgent and emergency servicesRequires Improvement, Oct 2024
All assessments

Breaches and enforcement

  • BreachNo regulation named · 7 May 2025
All 1 breaches and enforcement actions

Related PFD reports

All 10 related PFD reports

Most recent report indexed for actions

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

  • Date 3 August 2023
  • Type Location
  • Rating extracted from this report Inspected but not rated
  • Actions indexed None indexed

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AI-extracted 3 Jun 2026.

Inspection actions

No must-do or should-do actions are indexed from this report. This does not establish that no action was required; check the original inspection report.

CQC assessments indexed Single Assessment Framework

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

Location assessment ↗

Rating: Requires Improvement

Assessment narrative (CQC's words)
The service is not performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.
Assessment commentary (CQC's words)
Lincoln County Hospital is operated by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. The hospital serves the City of Lincoln and the North Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.The trust provides acute hospital care for the people of Lincolnshire from their sites in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham and delivers services from community hospitals and centres in Louth, Gainsborough, Spalding, and Skegness.On 16 October 2024, we carried out an unannounced assessment of one assessment service group provided by the trust at this location. This was an unannounced focused assessment of urgent and emergency care, in response to concerning information we had received about the care of patients in the department. At the time of our assessment the department was under adverse pressure.On 16 July 2025, we carried out an unannounced follow up site visit to look at infection prevention and control only.

Ratings by service 2

CQC's ratings for each assessed service group at this location.

  • Urgent and emergency services (Jul 2025) Requires Improvement
  • Urgent and emergency services (Oct 2024) Requires Improvement

Regulatory breaches and enforcement 1

The current-framework equivalent of "must do" actions. Breaches of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, stated verbatim in the CQC assessment. The type of each item and its key question are assigned by this site from that wording.

Breaches identified 1

Breach 1

Safe · 7 May 2025

From the assessment (CQC's words)
We found one breach of regulations in relation to infection prevention and control.

Prevention of future deaths reports sent to United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust, the body this location is linked to. Reports about deaths in state custody are left out.