The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has again rated maternity services at Goole and District Hospital as good, following an inspection in November.
The inspection was carried out as part of CQC’s national maternity inspection programme.
The programme aims to provide an up-to-date view of the quality of hospital maternity care across the country, and a better understanding of what is working well to support learning and improvement at a local and national level.
Inspectors looked at the areas of safe and well-led at the midwifery led unit (MLU) within Goole District Hospital. Following the inspection, the overall rating for maternity at Goole District Hospital is rated as good overall. The area for safe has dropped from good to requires improvement, and well-led has gone up from requires improvement to good.
CQC didn’t look at how effective, caring, and responsive the service was at this inspection, therefore the ratings for these areas remain as good.
The overall rating for the trust, remains as requires improvement. The overall rating for Goole and District Hospital remains as good.
Jonathan Lofthouse, Group Chief Executive, said: “We’re delighted to see that Goole has maintained its ‘Good’ rating for maternity services and improved on the ‘well-led’ element of the inspection. The service was praised for having a positive culture where staff felt supported and valued, with inspectors noting staff were patient focused. There were some areas for improvement identified too, which we are already working to address.”