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Maternity services in East of England

13 NHS trusts in East of England with their hospital maternity units: CQC’s rating, what women said about the staff who cared for them in labour, and how many gave birth in July 2026. England’s CQC score was 8.4 out of 10.

The CQC score comes from women who gave birth in February 2025: kindness, respect, being listened to, help when you needed it, staff working well together and not being left alone when worried.

NHS trusts in East of England

Highest CQC score first for “Staff caring for you in labour”, from the Maternity Survey. Neighbouring trusts are often only a fraction of a point apart, well within the survey’s margin: CQC’s own comparison, beside each one, is what tells trusts apart. We do not grade maternity care: we show CQC’s ratings, CQC’s survey scores and NHS England’s figures for births. Trusts care for different women: a specialist unit takes the most complex pregnancies from a wide area, so a figure on its own says little about the care.

North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.7/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 158 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
470
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Hinchingbrooke Hospital); Good (Peterborough City Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.7/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 101 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
140
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (The Queen Elizabeth Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.6/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 146 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
420
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.5/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 128 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
305
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Lister Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.4/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 189 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
420
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Addenbrooke's and the Rosie Hospitals).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.4/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 193 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
540
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Clacton Maternity Unit); Requires improvement (Colchester General Hospital); Requires improvement (The Ipswich Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.3/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 117 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
325
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Watford General Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.3/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 133 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
175
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (West Suffolk Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.2/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 287 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
835
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Basildon University Hospital); Requires improvement (Broomfield Hospital); Requires improvement (Southend University Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.1/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 106 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
125
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (James Paget Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.0/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 236 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: somewhat worse than expected.
Women who gave birth
575
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Inadequate (Bedford Hospital); Inadequate (Luton and Dunstable Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.0/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 131 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: somewhat worse than expected.
Women who gave birth
310
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Milton Keynes Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.0/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 102 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
230
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (The Princess Alexandra Hospital).

CQC’s ratings, every survey section and how babies were born

Where the figures come from

CQC’s inspections and survey, and the births each trust reported to NHS England.

Sources: CQC maternity ratings as at 1 October 2026; CQC Maternity Survey 2025 (women who gave birth in February 2025, published 10 December 2025); NHS England, Maternity Services Monthly Statistics, July 2026 (published 22 October 2026). Open Government Licence. CQC is not responsible for how we present its data.

Data updated

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Sources

  • Contains information from the Care Quality Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence. CQC must be acknowledged as the source of the data; CQC is not responsible for our analysis.
  • Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence

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