Maternity services in Nottingham are expected to still be graded as ‘inadequate’ when a healthcare watchdog publishes its latest inspection report into the city’s hospitals. Maternity services at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the City Hospital and Queen’s Medical Centre, were first given the rating following a 2020 inspection.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) returned in March this year and raised concerns over the triage service – where pregnant women are advised and assessed – but did say some improvements had been made. But now, the trust’s new chair, Nick Carver, has said he does not expect the ‘inadequate’ rating to change when a new report and rating is published in full by the commission.
And the trust’s director of midwifery said while it would be “disappointing” if the service remained inadequate, she reiterated it was a “long-term plan which isn’t going to be fixed overnight”.
