09 November 2022
During an inspection looking at part of the service
We inspected the Maternity service at University Hospital Coventry as part of our national maternity inspection programme. The programme aims to give an up-to-date view of hospital maternity care across the country and help us understand 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, looking only at the safe and well led key questions. We did not rate this location at this inspection. The previous rating of Good remains.
How we carried out the inspection
During our inspection of maternity services at University Hospital Coventry we spoke with 35 staff including leaders, obstetricians, midwives and maternity support workers.
We visited all areas of the unit including the antenatal clinic, antenatal ward, maternity triage, labour ward, birth centre, day assessment and postnatal ward We reviewed the environment, maternity policies while on site as well as reviewing 8 maternity records. Following the inspection, we reviewed data we had requested from the service to inform our judgements.
We ran a poster campaign during our inspection to encourage pregnant women and mothers who had used the service to give us feedback regarding care. We received 4 pieces of feedback and spoke with 7 women on the day of our inspection. We did not identify a theme or trend.
The trust provided maternity services at hospital and local community services and 5,267 babies were born in the trust during 2021.The hospital is also a tertiary referral centre for complex maternal and fetal indications.
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.