- NHS hospital
Worthing Hospital
Assessment report published 11 May 2026
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
Date of assessment: 10 to 11 September 2025. Worthing Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services. 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 Worthing Hospital. The rating of Worthing Hospital is requires improvement. At this assessment we found breaches of regulations in relation to safe care and treatment and staffing.
In our assessment of services for children and young people, we found staff delivered safe, compassionate, person‑centred care and maintained strong safeguarding and infection control. Leaders managed the service effectively and fostered a positive, open culture. Families reported high satisfaction. However, we identified areas for improvement in medicines management and surgical documentation and communication between the surgical team, staff, children and young people and their families or carers.