King's College Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

King's College Hospital is part of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and offers a wide range of hospital services to people living in Southwark and Lambeth. This assessment looked at urgent and emergency care and children and young peoples services to assess the quality of the care received by patients using those services. The rating of urgent and emergency care and children and young people's services have been combined with the ratings of the other services from the previous assessments. Our assessment of children and young people's services focused on safe and well led only. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all the other services at King's College Hospital. The rating of King's College Hospital remains requires improvement.