Worthing Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Outstanding

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Date of Assessment: 21 and 22 April 2026.

Worthing Hospital provides a range of NHS hospital services to people living in and surrounding Worthing, West Sussex. This assessment looked at maternity services. We assessed all quality statements across safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions.

The rating for maternity services has been combined with the ratings of the other services at this location. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Worthing Hospital.

The maternity service at Worthing Hospital forms part of University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust maternity services which also includes Royal Sussex County Hospital, St Richard’s Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital. We assessed the maternity service in response to ongoing concerns and to follow up on past breaches of regulation. At this assessment the rating has changed to requires improvement.

We identified breaches of regulations in relation to Safe Care and Treatment, and Good Governance.

The rating of the Worthing Hospital remains as requires improvement.