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Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Overall: Good read more about inspection ratings

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Background to this inspection

Updated 30 July 2019

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MKUH) was opened in 1984. It is a single-site trust that operates all clinical services from its main base at Milton Keynes Hospital. MKUH provides services including urgent and emergency care, medical and surgical non-elective services, maternity, as well as children’s inpatient and outpatient services to more than 400,000 people in Milton Keynes. In addition, the trust provides a wide range of elective outpatient, day case and elective services. MKUH became a foundation trust in 2007.

Overall inspection

Good

Updated 30 July 2019

Our rating of the trust stayed the same. We took into account the current ratings of services not inspected this time. We rated it as good because:

  • We rated effective, caring, responsive and well- led as good and safe as requires improvement.
  • We rated seven of the trust services as good and one, which was surgery as requires improvement overall.
  • We rated well led for the trust as good overall.
  • During this inspection, we did not inspect critical care, outpatients diagnostic imaging, services for children and young people or end of life care. The ratings we published following the previous inspections are part of the overall rating awarded to the trust this time