Source · CQC inspection

City Health Campus

Provider Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region West Midlands Last inspected 30 Jan 2026

Overall rating: Requires Improvement View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions

Safe

Requires Improvement

Effective

Requires Improvement

Caring

Good

Responsive

Requires Improvement

Well-led

Requires Improvement

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

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

Requires Improvement Assessed 30 January 2026

The service is not performing as well as it should and we have told the service how it must improve.

Date of assessment: 16 October 2025. City Health Campus, Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at surgery services at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, which we rated as Good. The rating of surgery has been combined with the ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all the other services at City Health Campus. The rating of City Health Campus remains requires improvement. In our assessment of …

Ratings by service

Surgery

Good

Jul 2025

Maternity

Requires Improvement

May 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

Following the assessment, we issued the service with a Section 29A Warning Notice telling them they were required to make significant improvements regarding the quality to healthcare to ensure the trust took immediate action to keep women, birthing people and babies safe.

· 11 Nov 2024 · CQC source

Breaches identified (3)

Breach Overall

Previous breaches for surgery including BMEC were to ‘ensure measures are in place to prevent further Never Events to protect patient’s safety’ and to ‘ensure BMEC mandatory training targets for all clinical staff are met and recorded’.

· 30 Jan 2026

Breach Overall

Some improvements had been made in mandatory training recording and rates overall, but there was a breach of regulation around completion of mandatory training in this inspection.

· 30 Jan 2026

Breach Overall

In our assessment of surgery services, we found a breach of regulation in relation to completion of mandatory training.

· 30 Jan 2026