{"id":345371,"date":"2025-08-15T02:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345371\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T02:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:03:12","slug":"maternity-services-at-liverpool-womens-hospital-given-major-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/345371\/","title":{"rendered":"Maternity services at Liverpool Women’s Hospital given major boost"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hospital’s services were put under the microscope by the Care Quality Commission\"LiverpoolLiverpool Women’s Hospital. Photo by Colin Lane<\/p>\n

Maternity services at Liverpool\u2019s specialist women\u2019s hospital have been upgraded after a visit from health officials. Run by the NHS Foundation Trust which bears the same name, Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital<\/a> is one of two specialist trusts in the UK, and the largest women\u2019s hospital in Europe.<\/p>\n

It provides care for a significant number of people with high levels of complexity and clinical risk, as well as serving a local population with significant deprivation. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspected this service between March and May in part to follow up on whistle blowing concerns relating to the culture and leadership at the service.<\/p>\n

The concerns were not substantiated during the inspection. It was also to follow up on breaches of regulation which were found at the previous inspection last January.<\/p>\n

These were in relation to safe care and treatment, good management and staffing. Following this inspection, the trust is no longer in breach of these regulations.<\/p>\n

The CQC has also upgraded the rating for how well-led the service is from requires improvement to good. Safe has gone up from inadequate to good, responsive has declined from outstanding to good, and effective and caring have been re-rated as good.<\/p>\n

\"LiverpoolLiverpool Women’s Hospital(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n

Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital remains rated as good, and the trust overall rating remains unchanged and is rated as requires improvement. Karen Knapton, CQC deputy director of operations in the north west, said: \u201cWe were pleased to see that leaders and staff working in maternity services at Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital had acted on our feedback from the previous inspection and worked hard to make improvements.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen and people using this service now had a much safer and improved experience of their care and treatment. Behind this was an improvement in how well-led the service was which in turn supported staff to provide better care.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor example, it was positive to hear that leaders had improved staffing levels. Women using the service told us there were enough staff to meet their needs, and they were treated with compassion and kindness.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was great to see this reflected in a recent people experience survey which found 94% of women felt they were treated with respect and dignity. Inspectors also found leaders had improved processes for managing people\u2019s deteriorating health.<\/p>\n

\u201cStaff were now carrying out more timely observations so any concerns could be escalated appropriately ensuring people were kept safe and received the care they need. Overall, the maternity team at Liverpool Women\u2019s Hospital should be proud of the improvements our inspection found.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey should use them as a foundation to keep building on.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ECHO <\/a>approached Liverpool Women\u2019s NHS Foundation Trust for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hospital’s services were put under the microscope by the Care Quality CommissionLiverpool Women’s Hospital. Photo by Colin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,71995,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-345371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-liverpool-womens-hospital","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115030327796383167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}