Whipps Cross University Hospital is by one measure, the poorest hospital to be rated by the Care Quality Commission to date.

Barts Health Trust, the largest NHS trust in the country, was placed in special measures yesterday after a damning CQC inspection report rated Whipps Cross as “inadequate”.

Six of the hospital’s eight core services were rated “inadequate” by the regualtor – twice more than any other hospital run by a trust in special measures.

William Harvey Hospital, part of East Kent Hospitals University Foundation Trust, had three of its eight services rated inadequate.

Colchester General Hospital, Hereford Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital all had two services rated inadequate.

The table below shows every hospital currently in special measures which has also had at least one of its services rated inadequate.

Chart showing worst performing inadequate

 

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