King's Mill Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Good

• Safe

  Good

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Good

Our view of the service

Kings Mill Hospital in Sutton in Ashfield is the main acute hospital site for Sherwood Forest Hospitals and provides acute healthcare services to a population of 420,000 across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. The hospital provides 580 inpatient beds (more than half in single occupancy rooms), eight main theatres, four-day case theatres, two obstetric theatres, an Endoscopy unit and a 24-hour emergency department.

Each year there are more than 70,000 inpatient admissions and 30,000-day case patients; 120,000 patients attend the emergency department, around 3,000 babies are delivered and more than 500,000 people attend outpatient and therapy appointments in the King’s Treatment Centre. We assessed the Emergency Department of King's Mill Hospital on 10 September 2024. We carried out this focused assessment following information of concern around care of deteriorating patients and management of sepsis. We inspected 8 quality statements across the safe, effective and well-led key questions and have combined the scores for these areas with scores from the last inspection to give the location rating. We rated the location as Good. There were no breaches of regulation at this time.