Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, NHS Grampian – maternity safe delivery of care inspection report: November 2026
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Document Type
Inspection reports
Maternity units
Summary
During the week of 27 April 2026, we carried out three unannounced safe delivery of care inspections within NHS Grampian.
As part of this we carried out an unannounced inspection to Aberdeen Maternity Hospital, on Wednesday 29 and Thursday 30 April 2026 using our safe delivery of care inspection methodology. We inspected the following areas:
- Ashgrove and Summerfield wards (combined antenatal and postnatal wards)
- labour ward
- maternity triage and induction of labour suite
- midwife led unit, and
- Rubislaw ward (early pregnancy and bereavement suite)
During our inspection, we:
- inspected the ward and hospital environment
- observed staff practice and interactions with women, such as during mealtimes
- spoke with women, visitors and ward staff and
- accessed women’s records, monitoring reports, policies and procedures.
Our findings
This inspection resulted in eight areas of good practice, three recommendations and 20 requirements.