Harrogate District Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Good

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Outstanding

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Good

Our view of the service

Harrogate and District Hospital was initially registered with CQC in December 2010. Additional registrations of specific regulatory activities took place up to 2023.

Treatment of disease, disorder or injury, Assessment or medical treatment for persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983, Family Planning, Diagnostic and Screening procedures, Management of blood and blood derived products, Personal care, Maternity and midwifery services, surgical procedures, Termination of pregnancies, Transport services, triage and medical advice provided remotely and Treatment of disease, disorder or injury.

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

We refer to women in this report, but we recognise that some transgender men, non-binary people and people with variations in sex characteristics (VSC) or who are intersex may also use services and experience some of the same issues. 

We assessed Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust maternity service from the 22 to 24 July 2025. We also held off-site focus groups with women and the Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership Chair on the 6,14 and 20 August 2025. The off-site interviews contributed to additional feedback from service users.

We assessed 1 assessment service group at this location to review the progress following the previous CQC assessments which took place in 2016 and 2022. The service had made improvements, however, had not met fully the previous breaches identified by the 2022 CQC report which reported on the safe and well-led quality statements. At the 2016 inspection the effective domain was rated requires improvement; at this inspection the effective domain has been rated good. At this assessment, all 34 quality statements were assessed for the maternity service group.

We visited the following areas as part of the assessment: Pannal Ward, Delivery suite including the Obstetric theatre, Maternity outpatients, Early Pregnancy Assessment Unit and the Maternity assessment centre. We also met with Community midwives.

At this assessment we identified some areas which required further development.

We found breaches of regulations within: 12 Safe Care and Treatment