Bradford Royal Infirmary

The Inspection visit took place on 13 November – 12 December 2019. 

Bradford Royal Infirmary is the main acute hospital for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It provides acute services, diagnostics and outpatient services. There is an emergency department providing 24 hour, seven days a week, comprehensive accident and emergency service; this includes including resuscitation and high dependency unit, ambulatory care unit, dedicated paediatric service and a primary care streaming service. 

We carried out an unannounced inspection of the medicine, children and young people, maternity, and outpatients core services. We inspected maternity and medicine core services as they had been rated as requires improvement at our last inspection in 2018. We inspected children and young people’s services and outpatient services as they had not been inspected since 2016. 

We carried out an announced inspection of well led at trust level between 10 December and 8 January 2019. This assessment focussed on the well-led key question at trust level and drew on our wider knowledge of quality in the Trust at all levels. We also considered improvements and changes since the last inspection.