Midland Metropolitan University Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Not rated

• Safe

  Not rated

• Effective

  Not rated

• Caring

  Not rated

• Responsive

  Not rated

• Well-led

  Not rated

Our view of the service

This was an assessment of 3 services at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, namely maternity, surgery, and urgent and emergency care (A&E). None of these services had been assessed previously. The overall location rating of ‘insufficient evidence to rate’ is used as we have not assessed all the services provided yet for Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, and we cannot therefore rate the location overall.

Midland Metropolitan University Hospital is an acute general hospital in Smethwick, in the Black Country of the West Midlands. The hospital is part of Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust which is an integrated care provider serving a local population of around 530,000 people from across west Birmingham and the towns within Sandwell.

This hospital opened in late 2024 and this was the first CQC inspection of three services.

Maternity services have been rated as requires improvement in 4 key questions with the exception of caring which was rated as good. Surgery services have been rated as good overall and in all 5 key questions. Urgent and emergency care services have been rated a good overall, but with safe being requires improvement. The other 4 key questions in urgent and emergency care were all rated as good.

The trust has been issued with requirement notices for breaches of regulation in maternity services and urgent and emergency care.