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Northampton General Hospital
We served a warning notice on Northampton General Hospital on 21 March 2025 for failing to meet the regulations related to safe care and treatment in the emergency department due to overcrowding and because significant improvement was required to improve patient flow through the hospital.
Report from 6 February 2025 assessment
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Ratings
Our view of the service
Northampton General Hospital (NGH) provides general acute services for a population of 426,500 in West Northamptonshire and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living throughout the whole of Northamptonshire. The hospital is also an accredited cancer centre and provides cancer services to a wider population of 880,000 who live in Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire. We rated this service under our previous methodology in November 2024, where it was rated ‘Good’ overall.
We carried out an unannounced assessment of urgent and emergency care (UEC) and medical care services at Northampton General Hospital on 18 & 19 February 2025. The assessment team consisted of CQC inspectors, CQC managers and specialist advisors. The assessment focussed on 24 quality statements under Safe, Effective, Care, Responsive and Well Led domains. Following the assessment, the UEC service has an overall rating of requires improvement, and medical care services has an overall rating of requires improvement. The rating from UEC and Medical Care has been combined with ratings of other services from previous inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all the services at Northampton General Hospital. The overall rating of Northampton General Hospital is now ‘requires improvement’.