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: 26 to 27 February 2025. 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 33 quality statements across safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions.

The rating from 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 Richards Hospital and Princess Royal Hospital. We assessed the maternity services in response to ongoing concerns about the services and follow up on past breaches of regulation. At the last comprehensive inspection in 2021 the maternity service at Worthing Hospital was rated requires improvement. We completed a focused inspection of maternity services in 2022 which was not rated.

We found breaches of regulations in relation to: risk assessments of the environment, staff training and governance of the service.