Concerns were again raised with many aspects of maternity care at Nottingham's hospitals following a reinspection, documents have shown. The Care Quality Commission highlighted issues with an increase in stillbirths, staffing and its triage service after it visited Nottingham City Hospital and Queen's Medical Centre from March 1-4.
Improvements were also noted, in terms of the quality of care, CTG practice, record keeping and handovers. The health watchdog returned to inspect how Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH), the trust that runs the hospitals, had improved the services since they were rated 'inadequate' in October 2020.
A previous visit in April 2021 found, whilst improvements had been made, more work was needed "to ensure safe high quality maternity care for all". The full report of the CQC's latest inspection is yet to be published, however newly released NUH board papers show a letter from the watchdog giving an overview of its feedback.
