Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

We assessed Gloucestershire Royal Hospital maternity unit and the community from 8 to 17 September 2025.

We assessed 1 assessment service group at this location to review the progress made following our last inspection in March 2024, where we issued conditions on their registration to improve safety of women and their babies. We found that the service had made improvements.

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital is part of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, they were registered with CQC in April 2010 to deliver the regulated activities: Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, Diagnostic and screening procedures, Management of supply of blood and blood derived products, Maternity and midwifery services, Surgical procedures, Termination of pregnancies, Treatment of disease, disorder or injury. The service has a Nominated Individual.

At this assessment we assessed 1 assessment service group: Maternity where we assessed 30 quality statements.

We visited the following areas as part of the assessment:

Community midwifery service, maternity wards, birthing unit, triage, antenatal clinic, theatres and the delivery suite.

We identified breach of 1 regulation: 12 Safe Care and Treatment

We rated the location as requires Improvement. We found a breach of regulation in relation to medicines safety and governance within maternity services.

We refer to women in this report, but we recognise that some transgender men, non-binary people and people with variations in sex characteristics (VSC) or who are intersex may also use services and experience some of the same issues.