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Maternity services in Midlands

22 NHS trusts in Midlands 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 Midlands

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.

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.8/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 132 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: somewhat better than expected.
Women who gave birth
320
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Bridgnorth Community Hospital); Requires improvement (Ludlow Community Hospital); Good (Oswestry Maternity Unit); Requires improvement (Royal Shrewsbury Hospital); Good (The Princess Royal Hospital).

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

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.8/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 128 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
235
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Chesterfield Royal Hospital).

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

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.7/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 103 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
310
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Bassetlaw District General Hospital); Requires improvement (Doncaster Royal Infirmary).

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

South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.7/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 155 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
290
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Warwick Hospital).

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

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.7/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 126 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
390
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Lincoln County Hospital); Good (Pilgrim Hospital).

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

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.7/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 118 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
115
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (The County Hospital).

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

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.6/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 125 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
565
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Nottingham City Hospital); Requires improvement (Queen's Medical Centre).

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

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.6/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 139 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
405
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (New Cross Hospital).

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

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.5/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 129 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
280
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Northampton General Hospital).

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

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.5/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 125 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
395
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (County Hospital); Good (Royal Stoke University Hospital).

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

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.4/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 117 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
195
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (George Eliot NHS Hospital).

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

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.4/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 116 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 (Kettering General Hospital).

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

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.4/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 139 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
485
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Birmingham Heartlands Hospital); Requires improvement (Good Hope Hospital); Good (Solihull Hospital).

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

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.4/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 132 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
425
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (University Hospital).

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

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.3/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 268 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
700
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Leicester General Hospital); Requires improvement (Leicester Royal Infirmary); Good (St Mary's Birth Centre).

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

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.2/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 218 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
595
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Queens Hospital); Requires improvement (Royal Derby Hospital).

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

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.2/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 88 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
295
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Manor Hospital).

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

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.2/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 138 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
395
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre); Good (Worcestershire Royal Hospital).

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

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.1/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 111 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
410
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Requires improvement (City Health Campus); Requires improvement (Midland Metropolitan University Hospital).

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

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.1/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 98 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: about the same as most trusts.
Women who gave birth
290
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Russells Hall Hospital).

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

Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
8.0/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 166 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: somewhat worse than expected.
Women who gave birth
620
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (Birmingham Women's Hospital).

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

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Staff caring for you in labour
7.9/10
CQC Maternity Survey 2025, 102 women answered
England: 8.4. CQC: somewhat worse than expected.
Women who gave birth
290
in July 2026

CQC maternity rating: Good (King's Mill 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.

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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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