University Hospital Monklands – Unannounced follow up inspection report: May 2026
Document Type
Inspection reports
NHS hospitals and services
Summary
We carried out an unannounced Safe Delivery of Care inspection of University Hospital Monklands, NHS Lanarkshire, on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 January 2022. Inspectors returned to University Hospital Monklands on Tuesday 1 February 2022 to follow up on an area of concern identified during the earlier inspection. As well as noting four areas of good practice, a total of seven requirements were made to the NHS board which are listed within this report.
We returned to carry out an unannounced follow-up inspection of University Hospital Monklands on Tuesday 20 January 2026 to assess progress made against the actions contained within the NHS Lanarkshire improvement action plan.
During our follow-up inspection in January 2026, 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 2
- medical assessment unit
- ward 4
- ward 6
- ward 7
- ward 9
- ward 10
- ward 12
- ward 14
- ward 17
Our findings
The follow up inspection resulted in two areas of good practice, one recommendation and three new or updated requirements.