A hospital’s urgent and emergency care services need to make improvements due to overcrowding and safety concerns, a health watchdog has said.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) carried out an inspection of Queen Alexandra Hospital, in Portsmouth, in May – the first since its new emergency department opened.
The hospital, which is run by Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, was rated as “good” overall in the CQC’s findings, external.
Neil Cox, CQC deputy director of operations in Portsmouth, said that although some improvements had been made since the last inspection, there were still “breaches of regulations”.