Updated 15 November 2022
We inspected the Maternity service at Barking Birth Centre as part of our national maternity inspection programme. The programme aims to provide an up-to-date view of the quality of hospital maternity care across the country and a better understanding of what is working well to support learning and improvement at a local and national level.
We will publish a report of our overall findings when we have completed the national inspection programme.
We carried out a short notice announced focused inspection of the Maternity service at Barking Birth Centre on 16 August 2022 looking only at the safe and well led key questions.
We had not rated this location before. We rated Maternity services at this location as requires improvement overall because we rated safe and well led as requires improvement.
We also inspected three other maternity services run by Barts Health NHS Trust . Our reports are here:
- The Barkantine Centre - https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/R1HX7
- The Royal London Hospital – https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/R1H12
- Whipps Cross University Hospital – http://www.cqc.org.uk/location/R1HKH
You can find further information about how we carry out our inspections on our website: https://www.cqc.org.uk/what-we-do/how-we-do-our-job/what-we-do-inspection.