University Hospital Crosshouse maternity safe delivery of care inspection: October 2025
Document Type
Inspection reports
Maternity units
Summary
We carried out an unannounced maternity services inspection to Ayrshire Maternity Unit, University Hospital Crosshouse, NHS Ayrshire & Arran on Wednesday 08 to Thursday 09 October 2025 using our safe delivery of care inspection methodology.
We inspected the following areas during the maternity inspection:
• inpatient ward
• labour ward
• maternity triage
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 health records, monitoring reports, policies and procedures.
As part of our inspection, we also asked NHS Ayrshire & Arran to provide evidence of its policies and procedures relevant to this inspection. The purpose of this is to limit the time the inspection team is onsite, reduce the burden on ward staff and to inform the virtual discussion session.
Our findings
This inspection resulted in 10 areas of good practice, two recommendations and 16 requirements