Derriford Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Outstanding

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Date of assessment from 15 to 16 April 2025. Derriford Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at surgery services only which was rated requires improvement at our last assessment. At this assessment the rating has improved to good. The rating from surgery has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last assessments and the overall rating of Derriford Hospital remains requires improvement. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Derriford Hospital.

Surgery services are provided by University Hospitals Plymouth (UHP) NHS Trust at the Derriford Hospital location. UHP is a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Plymouth and working with Plymouth Marjon University. It is the largest specialist teaching hospital in the South West peninsula and the region's major trauma centre.

In our assessment of surgery services we found people were kept safe and protected from avoidable harm. There were effective processes to monitor the quality and safety of the service and ensure people could access the service. The service had a positive culture with capable leaders. However, governance processes were not always robust and leaders did not always mitigate risks.