Queen's Medical Centre

Queen’s Medical Centre is an acute teaching hospital and is part of Nottingham University Hospitals Trust. The trust provides services to a population of more that 2.5 million people in Nottingham and its surrounding communities.

The Queen’s Medical Centre adult emergency department and short stay observational unit were inspected during unannounced visits on 7, 8 and 11 December 2016.

The inspection was a focussed, responsive, unannounced inspection. We inspected the adult emergency department and short stay observational unit because of concerns about the trust’s performance against the four hour waiting time standard for emergency departments. The service was previously rated as good overall, with well led rated as outstanding. For the purposes of this inspection we did not inspect the children’s emergency department, the major trauma centre or the eye casualty unit.