Northern General Hospital

14th June 2016
Grading:
Grading Explained: Good

We inspected the Northern General Hospital as part of the inspection of Shefield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust from 7 to 11 December 2015. We undertook an unannounced inspection on 23 December 2015. We carried out this inspection as part of the Care Quality Commission (CQC) comprehensive inspection programme. We did not inspect the GP out of hours collaborative as part of this inspection. Overall, we rated Northern General Hospital as good. We rated safe, efective, caring and responsive as good. Well-led was rated as requires improvement. We rated critical care and outpatients and diagnostics as outstanding. Medical care and surgery were rated as good. Emergency and urgent care and end of life care were rated as requires improvement.