20 NHS trusts up for inspection under new approach

The 20 NHS trusts listed face thorough scrutiny between April and June this year as part of the CQC’s new approach to hospital inspections.

These trusts will receive an official overall rating of outstanding, good, requires improvement or poor.

Each main service, such as maternity and accident and emergency, will also be rated in the same way, providing performance information at service and trust-level.

The trusts listed below have been selected for a range of reasons, with specialist trusts included for the first time. Some trusts inspected under the Bruce Keogh Review into high mortality rates are included for a follow-up inspection. Others are trusts judged to have a higher level of risk of providing poor care or are trusts hoping to secure foundation trust status. 

They are:

·       Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

·       Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

·       Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

·       Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

·       East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust

·       George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

·       Isle Of Wight NHS Trust

·       Medway NHS Foundation Trust

·       North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust

·       North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

·       North West London Hospitals NHS Trust

·       Northern Lincolnshire and Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

·       Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust

·       Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust

·       Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

·       Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

·       Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

·       The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

·       United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

·       Wye Valley NHS Trust

Source: www.cqc.org.uk