Borders General Hospital – safe delivery of care inspection report September 2025
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Document Type
Inspection reports
NHS hospitals and services
Summary
We carried out an unannounced inspection of Borders General Hospital, NHS Borders, on Tuesday 22 and Wednesday 23 November 2022. As well as noting six areas of good practice, a total of five requirements were made to the NHS board.
We returned to carry out an unannounced follow-up inspection from Tuesday 5 August to Wednesday 6 August 2025, to assess progress made against the actions contained within NHS Borders improvement action plan.
During this follow up inspection we:
- revisited several of the areas previously inspected to provide assurance of improvement within these areas
- looked at a broad range of specialties to help us to understand the extent of any wider improvements across the hospital
- inspected:
- the acute assessment and ambulatory care ward
- emergency department
- intensive care unit
- Margaret Kerr unit
- medical assessment
- Borders stroke unit
- ward 4
- ward 5
- ward 7
- ward 9
- ward 14
- ward 15
- reviewed progress made against the previous inspection requirements and the NHS board’s subsequent improvement action plans to provide assurance that all actions were completed or where actions remain outstanding, progress has been made.
Our findings
The follow-up inspection resulted in three areas of good practice, two new recommendations and four requirements.