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Leicester General Hospital

Provider University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region East Midlands Last inspected 14 Jun 2024

Location rating: Requires Improvement  View location on CQC

Location ratings by domain

Five CQC key questions

Ratings held for this CQC location under the inspection framework, last inspected 14 June 2024. Ratings extracted from individual reports are shown separately below.

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

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Type: Location
Date: 14 June 2024
Rating extracted from this report: Requires improvement
Actions indexed: 3 must-do 1 should-do

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AI-extracted 3 Jun 2026

Earlier inspection findings

pre-2024 framework · 3 must-do 1 should-do

Must-do actions (3)

Legal requirements based on regulation breaches identified during inspection.

Must-do action 1 of 3
Must do
Safe
The trust must ensure that the use of MEOWS is consistently implemented across the service in line with the policy.
Regulation: Regulation 12(2)(a)
⚠ During our inspection we reviewed the records of 2 patients which evidenced that staff had not identified they were at risk of deteriorating.
Must-do action 2 of 3
Must do
Safe
The trust must ensure there are always enough suitably qualified and skilled staff on duty.
Regulation: Regulation 18(1)
⚠ Staffing levels did not always match the planned numbers, putting the safety of women and birthing people and babies at risk. The service did not always have enough nursing and midwifery staff to keep women and babies safe.
Must-do action 3 of 3
Must do
Safe
The trust must ensure staff report all incidents in line with the incident reporting policy.
Regulation: Regulation 12(2)(b)
⚠ Although the number of incidents being reported was increasing, some staff felt they did not always have time to report incidents.

Should-do actions (1)

Recommended improvements to enhance service quality.

Should-do action 1 of 1
Should do
Well-led
The service should consider further separation of its maternity data for all sites.