Southampton General Hospital

Southampton General Hospital is the trust’s main hospital for delivering acute services to the population of Southampton and south Hampshire, including some patients from the Isle of Wight.

Services include urgent and emergency care, medicine, surgery, critical care, maternity and gynaecology, services for children and young people, end of life care, and outpatient services including diagnostic imaging.

Southampton General Hospital had a comprehensive inspection of all services in December 2014 and January 2015, and at that time, the hospital was rated as ‘requires improvement’ overall.

This inspection was a follow up to our inspection of 2015, when the trust was rated as ‘requires improvement’ overall. This inspection focussed on services rated as ‘requires improvement’ at that time: surgery; critical care, end of life care, and outpatients and diagnostic imaging. We did not inspect urgent and emergency care, medicine, maternity and gynaecology, or services for children and young people.