The NHS has been feeling the strain lately following the aftermath of the global pandemic, with healthcare stretched more than ever.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) is in charge of regulating all health and social care services in England. This includes health facilities such as hospitals, dentists, ambulances, and care homes, helping provide patients with the information they need so they can make choices about their care.
Inspectors judge each health and social care service based on the five CQC standards which are: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well-Led, with four ratings available - Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement and Inadequate. These ratings must be displayed by law where patients can easily see them, such as in the main entrance of a hospital or a GP waiting room.
To help you find out how your local hospital and treatment centre has been performing, we’ve put together a list of all the CQC ratings of every hospital and treatment centre in the North East, ranked from highest to lowest rating.
The CQC ratings for Middlesbrough – Newmedica, Newcastle – CHEC and Newcastle – Newmedica are not available at this time as their services have not been inspected as of yet.
13. Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust received a rating from the Care Quality Commission of requires improvement, with three out of the six categories requiring improvement. It scored outstanding for use of resources and a good rating for caring. | Google Maps
14. North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust has received a requires improvement rating from the Care Quality Commission, scoring requires improvement on three out of the five categories - safe, effective and well-led. It scored good on two categories - caring and responsive. | Google Maps
15. South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust scored a requires improvement rating from the Care Quality Commission, scoring requires improvement on four out of the six categories - safe, effective, responsive, well-led. It scored good on caring and there was insufficient evidence to rate use of resources. For specialist care rankings it scored outstanding on community health services for adults and community sexual health services. | Google Maps