Dr Gray’s Hospital, NHS Grampian – acute safe delivery of care inspection report: November 2026
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Document Type
Inspection reports
Mental health units
NHS hospitals and services
Summary
During the week of the 27 April, we undertook unannounced inspections of the mental health ward and acute hospital at Dr Gray’s Hospital using our safe delivery of care inspection methodology. We inspected the following areas:
- acute medical assessment unit
- emergency department
- high dependency unit
- paediatric ward
- stroke unit
- mental health ward (ward 4)
- ward 5
- ward 6
- ward 7 and,
- ward 8
During our inspection, we:
- inspected the ward and hospital environment
- observed staff practice and interactions with patients, such as during patient mealtimes
- spoke with patients, visitors and ward staff, and
- accessed patients’ health records, monitoring reports, policies and procedures.
Our findings
This inspection resulted in 13 areas of good practice, one recommendation and 15 requirements.