Southend University Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Requires improvement

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Requires improvement

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

Southend University Hospital is part of Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust. Southend University Hospital is a district general hospital located in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex. The hospital has approximately 730 beds, including medical, surgical, maternity, women’s, children’s, and critical care beds. The March 2024 assessment focused on the Maternity services, evaluating them based on 5 key criteria: Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive, and Well-led. Following the assessment the Safe and effective key criteria has remained at requires improvement. The rating for Caring and Responsive remained at Good and Well-led also remained at requires improvement. Critical Care was rated Good overall in August 2016, Services for children and young people was rated Good overall in April 2018, End of life care was rated Good overall in April 2018, Outpatients was rated Good overall in March 2020, Surgery was rated Requires improvement overall in December 2021, Urgent and emergency services was rated Requires improvement overall in December 2021, Medical care including older people’s care was rated Requires Improvement overall in October 2023.