- NHS hospital
The Ipswich Hospital
Assessment report published 18 February 2026
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
On 23 and 24 September 2025 we carried out an assessment of medical care (including older people’s) and urgent and emergency care. We carried out this assessment to review the progress made against the requirement notice that was served on the provider following the inspection in January 2020. We found the service had taken actions to address the requirement notice however, current performance demonstrated challenges with maintaining compliance in some areas.
The rating of medical care (including older people) and urgent and emergency care has been combined with the ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all the other services at The Ipswich Hospital. The rating of The Ipswich Hospital remains requires improvement.
In our assessment of medical care (including older people) services and urgent and emergency care, we found concerns which resulted in a breach of regulation in which we served a warning notice. We also found both services had not addressed all the concerns within the previous requirement notice from the January 2020 inspection.
At this assessment we identified breaches of regulations in relation to Safe Care and Treatment and Good Governance for both services.