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New Cross Hospital

Overall: Requires improvement read more about inspection ratings

Wolverhampton Road, Heath Town, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV10 0QP (01902) 307999

Provided and run by:
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Assessment report published 27 March 2026

Ratings

  • Overall

    Requires improvement

  • Safe

    Requires improvement

  • Effective

    Requires improvement

  • Caring

    Good

  • Responsive

    Good

  • Well-led

    Good

Our view of the service

Date of assessment: 24 to 26 November 2025. New Cross Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at emergency department care and treatment as part of the winter pressures inspection programme, which we rated as requires improvement. The rating from the emergency department has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at New Cross Hospital. The rating of New Cross Hospital went down to requires improvement. In our assessment of emergency department inspection we found that there were delays in people being triaged, poor oversight at the front door and flow through the department, insufficient staffing levels to maintain safe care and patients did not always get medicines in a timely way.