- NHS hospital
Blackpool Victoria Hospital
Assessment report published 28 August 2026
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
Date of assessment: 24 to 26 November 2025. 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 urgent and emergency care on 24 to 26 November 2025.
Blackpool Victoria Hospital is rated requires improvement overall and urgent and emergency care has improved from inadequate to requires improvement.
At this assessment we identified breaches of staffing and good governance regulation. The service was also in breach of person-centred care as people’s privacy and dignity was not always maintained in temporary escalation areas.