- NHS hospital
Liverpool Women's Hospital
Report from 11 March 2025 assessment
Ratings
Our view of the service
Liverpool Women’s Hospital is part of the Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust and specialises in the health of women, babies, and their families. It is one of only two specialist trusts in the UK and the largest women’s hospital in Europe. As a tertiary centre the hospital provides care for a significant proportion of people with high levels of complexity and clinical risk, as well as serving a local population with significant deprivation. The hospital teams deliver around 8,000 babies each year.
The maternity team cares for women and their babies from conception to birth supported by the neonatal team who provide around the clock care for premature and new-born babies needing specialist care. The trust also delivers neonatal, end of life care, outpatients, gynaecology, fertility and termination of pregnancy services but these were not included in this inspection.
The hospital became part of the University Hospitals of Liverpool Group in November 2024.
We commenced a responsive assessment of the maternity services at Liverpool Women’s Hospital on 11 March 2025 because we received whistle blower concerns relating to the culture and leadership within the service, and to re-rate the maternity services following an inadequate rating in safe from January 2023. We carried out an unannounced inspection during 29 April 2025 to 1 May 2025.
Our assessment only looked at the maternity services at Liverpool Women’s Hospital. Our findings for maternity services can be found in the services section of this report.
The overall location rating for Liverpool Women’s Hospital remains unchanged following our assessment of the maternity services. We rated Liverpool Women’s Hospital as good.