Surrey hospital praised by health regulators

The Care Quality Commission has rated the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford as ‘good’ with some of its services described as ‘outstanding.’

Inspectors from the commission visited the hospital trust in March to assess three core services: Urgent and emergency care, medical care and end of life care.

End of life care and medical care were rated as outstanding having previously been rated as good.

Urgent and emergency care remained good and the hospital trust remained good overall.

Care Quality Commisstion deputy chief inspector of hospitals Dr Nigel Acheson said: “Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust have worked hard to implement and embed improvements within the areas we inspected.

“This has given us the opportunity to rate both medical care and end of life care as outstanding while their urgent and emergency care remains good.

“The trust and its leadership team should be proud of their achievements to date.”

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