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Bishop Auckland Hospital

Provider County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust Type NHS Healthcare Organisation Region North East

Overall rating: Not Yet Rated View full CQC report

Domain ratings

Five CQC key questions

Safe

Not Yet Rated

Effective

Not Yet Rated

Caring

Not Yet Rated

Responsive

Not Yet Rated

Well-led

Not Yet Rated

Current CQC assessment

Single Assessment Framework

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

Not Yet Rated Assessed 12 June 2026

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust provides healthcare services to a population of 650,000 people across County Durham and Darlington, and surrounding areas. It sits within the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System.It is registered to provide the following regulated activities: Treatment of Disease, Disorder or Injury, Surgical Procedures, Diagnostic and Screening Procedures.Bishop Auckland Hospital (BAH) has approximately 145 beds and provides a range of NHS hospital services.This assessment looked at surgery services due to aged rating and emerging risk. We conducted this unannounced assessment on 7 …

Ratings by service

Surgery

Requires Improvement

Jun 2025

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

We took enforcement action and served a Warning Notice under Section 29A of the Health and Social Care Act 2008, which requires the trust to make significant improvement to the quality of healthcare provided.

· 12 Jun 2026 · CQC source