Dr Gray’s 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.
We carried out an unannounced maternity services inspection in conjunction with an acute and mental health safe delivery of care inspection to Dr Gray’s Hospital on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 April 2026 using our safe delivery of care inspection methodology. We inspected the following areas within maternity services:
- Ward 3 – Maternity unit
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, visitors and ward staff, and
- accessed women’s health records, monitoring reports, policies and procedures.
Our findings
This inspection resulted in nine areas of good practice, two recommendations and 15 requirements.