Queen's Medical Centre

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

The Queen’s Medical Centre is operated by Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The maternity service sits within the division of family health and provides a range of services from pregnancy, birth, and post-natal care. There are inpatient antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal beds. The fetal medicine service is based at both Nottingham City Hospital (NHC) and QMC sites but mainly at the QMC campus.

Maternity services at the QMC are based over 2 floors. Ward B26 is an 18 bedded antenatal ward. Ward C29 is a 26 bedded postnatal ward which includes transitional care cots. The labour suite is located on the same floor as B26 and has maternity operating theatres, 9 beds for women in labour plus 4 observation beds, and a bereavement suite. The induction suite is also based in the labour suite, as is the Sanctuary birth centre which is a 4 bedded midwife led unit. The triage unit is a standalone area with a 3 bedded triage room and a separate assessment room with 2 trolleys. The day assessment unit has 4 beds.

Community maternity services were provided by teams of midwives predominantly commissioned by NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board. They offer a homebirth service and postnatal care. We did not assess the community services during this inspection.

We assessed the service between 18 June to 03 July 2024.

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