Victoria Hospital maternity safe delivery of care inspection: March 2026
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Document Type
Inspection reports
Maternity units
Summary
We carried out an unannounced inspection to Victoria Hospital, NHS Fife on Tuesday 2 December and Wednesday 3 December 2025. We used our safe delivery of care inspection methodology. We inspected the following areas:
- Consultant led delivery unit
- Maternity triage
- Maternity ward – combined antenatal and postnatal
During our inspection, we:
- inspected the ward and hospital environment
- observed staff practice and interactions with women and birthing people, such as during mealtimes
- spoke with women, birthing people, visitors and ward staff
- accessed women and birthing people’s health records, monitoring reports, policies and procedures.
Our findings
This inspection resulted in ten areas of good practice, two recommendations and 13 requirements.