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: 15 October 2025. University Hospital Sussex provides a range of NHS hospital services across 4 locations, providing care to the populations of parts of East Sussex, Brighton and Hove and West Sussex.

The maternity assessment took place at St Richard’s Hospital in West Sussex. The rating from maternity has been combined with ratings of the other services from the last inspections at St Richard’s Hospital. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at St Richard’s Hospital. The rating of St Richard’s Hospital is, requires improvement.

At this assessment we identified a breach of regulations in relation to regulation 12: safe care and treatment and regulation 17: good governance.