Worthing Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Outstanding

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Date of assessment: 18 and 19 June 2024. Worthing Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. This assessment looked at services for children and young people, which we rated as good.   We conducted an on site assessment of the hospital following information of concern identified during a Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) monitoring visit.  The rating from services for children and young people has been combined with ratings from the last inspection. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Worthing Hospital. The rating of Worthing Hospital remains requires improvement.  In our assessment of services for children and young people we found breaches of Regulation 12, 17 and 18 of the Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. As a result of these findings we have asked the trust to submit an action plan in regards to each breach.   Across safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions we have combined the scores for these areas with scores from the last inspection to determine the rating for the overall location key questions. These ratings are published at the start of this assessment report.