Lincoln County 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

Lincoln County Hospital is operated by United Lincolnshire Teaching Hopsitals NHS Trust. The hospital serves the City of Lincoln and the Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

The trust provides acute hospital care for the people of Lincolnshire from their sites in Lincoln, Boston and Grantham and delivers services from community hospitals and centres in Louth, Gainsborough, Spalding, and Skegness.

On 16 October 2024, we carried out an unnanounced assessment of one assessment service group provided by the trust at this location. This was an unannounced focused assessment of urgent and emergency care, in response to information we had received about the care of patients in the department. At the time of our assessment the department was under significant operational pressure.