Bradford Royal Infirmary

Ratings

• Overall

  Good

• Safe

  Good

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Good

Our view of the service

Bradford Royal Infirmary is a district general hospital located near Bradford town centre. It forms part of the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It provides a full range of services including urgent and emergency care, critical care, a comprehensive range of elective and non-elective general medicine (including elderly care) and surgery (non-elective), paediatric care, neonatal care, maternity care and a range of outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. We carried out a focused unannounced onsite assessment of Medicine on 13 and 14 March 2024 which we rated as good. We also carried out 2 further unannounced onsite assessments between 15 and 16 May 2024 of Maternity services which we rated as good and Neonatal services which we rated outstanding. During the assessments we spoke with staff, leaders, people who use the service and stakeholders. We looked at care records, policies and other documents relating to the services. The ratings from medicine, maternity and neonatal services have been combined with ratings of the other services from previous inspections. See our previous reports to get a full picture of all other services at Bradford Royal Infirmary. The rating of Bradford Royal Infirmary remains good. In our assessment of medical care (including older people’s care), we found a positive learning culture, and evidence of safe systems and pathways, however, we also saw challenges with safe and effective staffing and safe management and destruction of medicines. In our assessment of the maternity service, we found that safety was prioritised and involved staff and women using the service and their families and there was a culture of safety and learning. In our assessment of the neonatal service, we found that safety was prioritised staffing levels and skill mix were managed effectively; there were safe systems and pathways in place and safety incidents were managed well and lessons were learnt from them.