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Maternity services in London
17 NHS trusts in London 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 London
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.
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.9/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 149 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: better than expected.
- Women who gave birth
- 360
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Good (Kingston Hospital).
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.6/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 118 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 250
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Good (Epsom General Hospital); Good (St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children).
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.6/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 169 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 715
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Outstanding (Queen Charlottes and Chelsea Hospital); Outstanding (St Mary's Hospital).
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.6/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 73 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 215
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Northwick Park Hospital).
Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.6/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 115 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 170
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (The Whittington Hospital).
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.5/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 245 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 640
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Good (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital); Outstanding (West Middlesex University Hospital).
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.5/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 171 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 555
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Good (St Thomas' Hospital).
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.5/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 177 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 480
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Good (Queen Elizabeth Hospital); Good (University Hospital Lewisham).
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.5/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 112 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 (St George's Hospital (Tooting)).
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.4/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 127 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 480
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Good (Homerton University Hospital).
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.4/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 76 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 245
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (The Hillingdon Hospital).
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.3/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 107 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 265
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Croydon University Hospital).
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.3/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 216 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 520
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (King's College Hospital); Requires improvement (Princess Royal University Hospital).
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.3/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 130 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 440
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Good (University College Hospital & Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing).
Barts Health NHS Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.2/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 237 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
- Women who gave birth
- 895
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Barking Birth Centre); Requires improvement (Newham University Hospital); Inadequate (The Barkantine Centre); Requires improvement (The Royal London Hospital); Good (Whipps Cross University Hospital).
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 8.0/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 199 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: somewhat worse than expected.
- Women who gave birth
- 680
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Good (Barnet General Hospital); Good (Edgware Community Hospital); Requires improvement (North Middlesex University Hospital); Requires improvement (The Royal Free Hospital).
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Staff caring for you in labour
- 7.8/10
- CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 187 women answered
- England: 8.4. CQC: worse than expected.
- Women who gave birth
- 550
- in July 2026
CQC maternity rating: Good (Queen's Hospital).
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
The month each source’s data runs to, and when its publisher released it.
- CQC Maternity Survey: (published 10 December 2025)
- Maternity Services Monthly Statistics: (published 22 October 2026)
- CQC ratings: (published 2 October 2026)
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