Goole & District Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Good

• Safe

  Good

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust provide a comprehensive range of NHS hospital services for approximately 450,000 people living in the Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole region. The Trust has three hospitals sites with approximately 750 inpatient beds.

We carried out an assessment of the outpatient department at Goole and District Hospital. The assessment commenced with an unannounced visit on 10 and 11 February 2026 by two inspectors. The assessment focussed on thirty-three quality statements under the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led key questions. Following the assessment the outpatient department had an overall rating of good.

The rating of Goole and District Hospital outpatient department 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 Goole and District Hospital. The rating of Goole and District Hospital remains good.

We found continued breaches of regulation in relation to waiting times for new and follow up appointments, including performance against the national NHS 62-day cancer performance target. At this assessment we identified two breaches of regulations in relation to Safe care and treatment (Regulation 12) and Good Governance (Regulation 17).