Updated
15 January 2026
Date of assessment: 30 July and 15 August 2025. CHEC - Worcester provides a range of ophthalmic and endoscopy services. This assessment looked at services for surgery and medicine as part of our inspection schedule, which we rated both as Good. The rating of surgery and medicine have been combined to produce a location assessment of Good. In our assessment of surgery and medical services, we found that patients and their families or carers were provided with good care and were supported through their ill health journey.
Updated
5 June 2025
On 30 July and 15 August 2025, we carried out an inspection at CHEC – Worcester inspecting the surgery service. This report relates to the clinical rooms and waiting room at the hospital. We went to all areas which saw ophthalmological patients at the hospital. We spoke with 6 patients and 1 carer. We reviewed 3 sets of patient records. We spoke with 3 staff which included: technicians, senior leaders, healthcare assistants and administration staff. We found that the service was safe, effective, caring, responsive to people’s needs and of late was led well.
We assessed 34 quality statements across the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions and we have combined scores to give the rating of Good.