- NHS hospital
Colchester General Hospital
Report from 12 June 2025 assessment
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
We carried out an assessment on 9 to 10 April 2025 of medical care (including older people) at Colchester General Hospital which provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment took place due to safeguarding concerns and emerging safety risk for people receiving care, which we rated as requires improvement. The rating from medical care (including older people) 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 Colchester General Hospital. The rating of Colchester General Hospital remains requires improvement. In our assessment of medical care (including older people) services we found breaches relating to safe care and treatment, poor compliance with infection, prevention control measures and use of protective personal equipment. People were not always safeguarded from abuse, poor staffing resulting in delays in care and treatment. We found personal information was not always kept safe to protect people’s privacy.
We carried out an assessment of the urgent and emergency care on 29 and 30 April 2025. This was a responsive assessment due to safeguarding concerns and emerging safety risk for people receiving care at Colchester General Hospital. We reviewed 19 quality statements across safe, responsive and well-led. The rating from urgent and emergency 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 Colchester General Hospital. The rating of Colchester General Hospital remains requires improvement. During our assessment, we found concerns which resulted in a breach of regulation in which we served a warning notice. We found breaches in regulation 12 in relation to safe care and treatment, regulation 15 premises and equipment and regulation 17 good governance. You can find more details of our concerns in the evidence category findings.