Ninewells Hospital – Unannounced follow up inspection report: June 2026
Document Type
Inspection reports
NHS hospitals and services
Summary
We carried out an unannounced inspection of Ninewells Hospital, NHS Tayside, on Monday 27 to Wednesday 29 January 2025. As well as noting 10 areas of good practice, a total of 14 requirements were made to the NHS board. Read the original inspection report.
We returned to Ninewells Hospital in February 2026 to carry out an unannounced follow-up inspection. We assessed progress on NHS Tayside’s improvement action plan from the last inspection.
During our follow-up inspection, we revisited several of the areas previously inspected to provide assurance of improvement within these areas. We also included a broad range of specialties to help us to understand the extent of any wider improvements across the hospital.
We inspected the following areas:
- emergency department
- ward 1
- ward 3
- ward 5
- ward 6
- ward 12
- ward 14
- ward 15
- ward 16
- ward 17
- ward 19
- ward 23a
- ward 23b
- ward 30
Our findings
The follow up inspection resulted in three areas of good practice, two new or updated requirements, and three requirements carried forward.