Updated 27 February 2023
We inspected the maternity service at St Austell Hospital - Penrice Birthing Unit as part of our national maternity inspection programme. The programme aims to give an up-to-date view of hospital maternity care across the country and help us understand what is working well to support learning and improvement at a local and national level.
We will publish a report of our overall findings when we have completed the national inspection programme.
We carried out a short notice announced focused inspection of the maternity service, looking only at the safe and well-led key questions.
Our rating of this location stayed the same. We rated it as requires improvement.
We also inspected 2 other maternity service run by Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust. Our reports are here:
- Royal Cornwall Hospital – https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/REF12
- Helston Birth Centre - https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/REFZ1
You can find further information about how we carry out our inspections on our website: https://www.cqc.org.uk/what-we-do/how-we-do-our-job/what-we-do-inspection.