Bishop Auckland Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Not rated

• Safe

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• Effective

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• Caring

  Not rated

• Responsive

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• Well-led

  Not rated

Our view of the service

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust provides healthcare services to a population of 650,000 people across County Durham and Darlington, and surrounding areas. It sits within the North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care System.

It is registered to provide the following regulated activities: Treatment of Disease, Disorder or Injury, Surgical Procedures, Diagnostic and Screening Procedures.

Bishop Auckland Hospital (BAH) has approximately 145 beds and provides a range of NHS hospital services.

This assessment looked at surgery services due to aged rating and emerging risk. We conducted this unannounced assessment on 7 to 9 October 2025. We assessed 33 quality statements across the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions.

We visited clinical areas and spoke with patients, their families and carers. We looked at health care records and a range of policies, procedures and other documents relating to the running of the service.

We spoke with 110 staff, including senior leaders, managers, clinical staff and non-clinical workers across the care group.

We rated the surgery service as Requires Improvement.

We could not rate this location as we have not assessed all the services provided by this provider to give a rating.

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