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Barking Birth Centre

Overall: Requires improvement read more about inspection ratings

Barking Community Hospital, Upney Lane, Barking, Essex, IG11 9LX (020) 8983 8000

Provided and run by:
Barts Health NHS Trust

All Inspections

16 August 2022

During an inspection looking at part of the service

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.

07/11/2013

During a routine inspection

Barking Birthing Centre is part of Barts Health NHS Trust, the largest NHS trust in England.

Before visiting we looked at information about the trust, including the maternity services. We carried out an unannounced visit on 7 November 2013. We looked at the personal care or treatment records of people who used the service, observed how people were being cared for and talked with people who used the service. We talked with carers, family members and staff.

The inspection team included a midwife and a consultant obstetrician.