Medway Maritime Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Medway Maritime Hospital provides a range of NHS Hospital Services. This assessment looked at urgent and emergency services, which we rated requires improvement. The rating from urgent and emergency services has been combined with ratings of other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Medway Maritime Hospital. The overall rating of Medway Maritime Hospital remains requires improvement. In our assessment of urgent and emergency services we found breaches of Regulation 10, 12, 15, 17 and 18 of the Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. As a result of these findings, we served a Warning Notice requiring the trust to make significant improvements to the quality of healthcare in the emergency department. We conducted an evidenced based off-site and on-site assessment of the hospital due to receiving information of concern. We assessed all 8 quality statements for the safe key question. We assessed 2 quality statements for effective and well-led and 1 quality statement for responsive and caring. Across effective, responsive, caring and well-led key questions we have combined the scores for these areas with scores from the last inspection.