University Hospital Aintree

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Urgent and Emergency Care Services at the University Hospital Aintree are provided by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The trust was created on 1 October 2019 following a process of acquisition, in which Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust acquired Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospital NHS Trust. University Hospital Aintree was last partially inspected (safe, responsive and well-led) in September 2023, but not rated.

We carried out an unannounced assessment of urgent and emergency care (UEC) services at University Hospital Aintree on 10 and 11 December 2024.  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 good and the overall rating of University Hospital Aintree remains requires improvement.