Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Inadequate

• Safe

  Inadequate

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Inadequate

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Blackpool Victoria Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at the maternity service. We conducted this unannounced focused assessment on 18 and 19 March 2025 as a follow-up of the requires improvement rating and Section 31 letter of intent issued in 2022. We assessed 28 quality statements across the safe, effective, responsive and well-led key questions. We did not assess the caring key question during this assessment. The rating is based on the previous rating for this key question.

We rated the maternity service as requires improvement.  

At this assessment, we looked at the maternity service. The ratings from the maternity service have been combined with ratings of the other services at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. The overall location rating for the hospital remains inadequate.  

Please see our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.