Princess Royal Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Date of assessment: 19 November and 15 December 2025. University Hospital Sussex provides a range of NHS hospital services across 4 locations, providing care to the populations of parts of East Sussex, Brighton and Hove and West Sussex.

The maternity assessment took place at Princess Royal Hospital in East Sussex. The rating from maternity has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last assessment at Princess Royal Hospital. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Princess Royal Hospital. The rating of Princess Royal Hospital is, requires improvement.

The service continued to have poor staffing levels and remained in breach of regulation 18: Staffing.

At this assessment we identified breaches of regulations in relation to regulation 12: Safe Care and Treatment and regulation 17: Good Governance.