Macclesfield District General Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

We assessed Macclesfield District General Hospital from 8 to 10 July 2025 and 8 September 2025.

Macclesfield District General Hospital was registered with CQC in April 2010 to deliver the regulated activities: Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, Diagnostic and screening procedures, Family planning, Maternity and midwifery services, Nursing care, Personal care, Termination of pregnancies and Treatment of disease, disorder and injury.

The service had a controlled drugs accountable officer and a Nominated Individual.

At this assessment we assessed 3 assessment service groups: Urgent and Emergency Care, Medical Care (Including older people’s care), and Maternity. We assessed 33 quality statements for each of the 3 services.

We visited the following areas as part of the assessment:

Accident and emergency, same day emergency care, medical wards, maternity wards and the labour suite.

At this assessment we identified breaches of regulations: 9 Person-centred Care, 11 Need for consent, 12 Safe care and treatment, 16 Receiving and acting on complaints, 17 Good governance, 18 Staffing and 20 Duty of candour.

We rated the location as Requires Improvement.