University Hospital Aintree

Ratings - Medical care (Including older people's care)

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Medical Care services at the University Hospital Aintree are provided by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The trust was created on 1 October 2019 following a process of acquisition, in which Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust acquired Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Hospital NHS Trust. We conducted an onsite focused assessment of the service on 26 and 27 March 2024. The assessment was unannounced which meant that staff and leaders did not know we were coming. As part of the assessment, we spoke with staff, leaders and people who use the service. The service mostly provided and maintained safe systems of care, in which safety was managed, monitored and assured. Processes and policies to plan and deliver people’s care and treatment were in line with legislation and current evidence-based good practice and standards. However, people were not always cared for in the right place. We told the service how it must improve.