St Richard's Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Outstanding

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Date of assessment: 11 to 12 September 2025. St Richards Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services, to people living in and around Chichester. This assessment looked at services for children and young people as part of our inspection schedule, which we rated as good. The rating of services for children and young people has been combined with the ratings of the other services from the last inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all the other services at St Richards Hospital. At this assessment we found breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment.

The rating of St Richards Hospital remains requires improvement. In our assessment of services for children and young people, we found that children, young people and their families or carers were provided with good care and were supported through their ill health journey.