Blackpool Victoria Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Inadequate

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire and operates within a regional health economy catchment area that spans Lancashire and South Cumbria. The trust provides a full range of hospital services and community health services. These include adult and children’s services such as health visiting, community nursing, sexual health services and family planning, dental clinics and palliative care. The trust provides tertiary cardiac, haematology and adult cystic fibrosis services to 1.5 million population catchment area covering Lancashire and South Cumbria.

The trust provides a range of acute services to the 330,000 population of the Fylde coast health economy and the estimated 11 million visitors to the seaside town of Blackpool.

Since April 2012, the trust also provides a wide range of community health services to the 445,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde, Wyre and North Lancashire.

We undertook an unannounced inspection of medical care (including older people's care) on 24 to 26 November 2025.

Blackpool Victoria Hospital is rated requires improvement overall and medical care (including older people's care) has improved from requires improvement to good.