- NHS hospital
The York Hospital
Assessment report published 2 July 2025
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
York and Scarborough Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides a comprehensive range of acute hospital and specialist healthcare for approximately 800,000 people living in York, North Yorkshire, Northeast Yorkshire, and Ryedale. The trust manages 2 acute hospital sites and 6 community hospitals.
There is a workforce of over 10,000 staff working across the hospitals and in the community. The York Hospital is the trust’s largest hospital. It has over 700 beds and offers a range of inpatient and outpatient services. It provides acute medical and surgical services, including trauma and intensive care.
We carried out an assessment of urgent and emergency care (UEC) and medical care services at The York Hospital. The assessment commenced on 14 January 2025, with an unannounced visit to UEC and the medical service by a team of inspectors and specialist advisors on 14 and 15 January 2025. The assessment focussed on a number of quality statements under the Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive, and Well Led domains. Following the assessment, the UEC service has an overall rating of requires improvement, and medical care services has an overall rating of requires improvement. The rating from UEC and medical care has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at The York Hospital. The overall rating of The York Hospital is now requires improvement.