Peterborough City Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Good

Our view of the service

The North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust (NWA NHS FT) was formed on 1 April 2017 when Peterborough and Stamford NHS Foundation Trust merged Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust on 1 April 2017. The Trust provides a range of acute NHS hospital services across three sites, as well as Community Clinics at Doddington, Ely and Wisbech. They provide care for 850,000 people living in Peterborough, North and East Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, South Lincolnshire, East Leicestershire, Rutland, Bedfordshire and East Northamptonshire.

We carried out an assessment of urgent and emergency care (UEC), and medical care services at Peterborough City Hospital. The assessment commenced on 26 June 2024, and included an unannounced visit to UEC and the medical service by a team of inspectors and specialist advisors on 30 and 31 July 2024. The assessment focussed on a number of quality statements under the Safe, Effective, Responsive, and Well Led domains. Following the assessment, the UEC service has an overall rating of requires improvement, and medical care services has an overall rating of good. The overall rating of Peterborough City Hospital remains requires improvement.