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Chaucer Hospital

Independent hospital

Nackington Road, Canterbury, CT4 7AR · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01227825100 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 6 April 2026 — this rating applies to this specific location. About this data

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Contains public sector information from the Care Quality Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Chaucer Hospitalis an independent (private-sector) hospital, regulated by the Care Quality Commission. It is shown on its own, separately from NHS hospitals — the CQC rates independent and NHS providers on the same five inspection questions, but this hospital's private-pay activity and outcomes are not published anywhere, so the two sectors are never ranked together. A minority of independent hospitals, including some run by this provider, also carry out NHS-funded work — where NHS England publishes that separately under the hospital's own NHS provider code, we show it further down this page, clearly marked as NHS-funded activity only. See methodology.

CQC ratings by service

CQC rated these services individually — there is no single overall rating for this location.

Diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated May 2022
Medical care (including older people's care)Good
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated May 2022
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated May 2022
Termination of pregnancyNot yet rated
rated March 2017

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

Chaucer Hospital also carries out NHS-funded treatment. NHS England separately publishes waiting times and patient outcomes for that NHS-funded work, matched to this hospital via its own NHS provider (ODS) code. NHS-funded activity only— this hospital's private-pay (self-pay/insured) work is not shown here or anywhere on this site.

NHS-funded waiting times

Data: May 2026 · NHS-funded activity only — Chaucer Hospitalalso carries out private-pay work, which is not shown here or anywhere on this site (see methodology).

NHS-funded waiting list
861
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
80.0%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
9.2 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
7501,0001,250Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 268611,386April 20231,373May 20231,364June 20231,297July 20231,239August 20231,222September 20231,186October 20231,117November 20231,108December 20231,072January 2024982February 2024982March 2024994April 2024983May 2024971June 2024958July 2024914August 2024859September 2024818October 2024750November 2024739December 2024643January 2025600February 2025606March 2025815April 2025784May 2025806June 2025805July 2025809August 2025829September 2025821October 2025841November 2025915December 2025933January 2026951February 2026921March 2026846April 2026861May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%80.0%56.9%April 202355.7%May 202359.6%June 202361.7%July 202359.5%August 202362.5%September 202363.7%October 202363.9%November 202362.9%December 202362.8%January 202466.0%February 202467.2%March 202472.2%April 202472.9%May 202472.9%June 202475.7%July 202474.9%August 202474.5%September 202471.6%October 202468.7%November 202467.8%December 202465.0%January 202565.2%February 202568.8%March 202578.0%April 202579.3%May 202582.6%June 202582.6%July 202582.8%August 202584.2%September 202584.4%October 202582.5%November 202582.1%December 202582.9%January 202681.2%February 202676.9%March 202678.8%April 202680.0%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic58476.9%9.0 wks30.0 wks000
Ophthalmology16294.4%9.4 wks17.5 wks000
General Surgery10674.5%9.8 wks32.3 wks000
Urology988.9%10.5 wks26.3 wks000

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics, filtered to this hospital's own NHS provider code. About this data

NHS-funded activity only — the outcomes below cover only this hospital's NHS-funded hip & knee replacements, not its private-pay caseload.

Hip & knee replacement — patient outcomes (PROMs)

Financial year 2024-25(finalised) · patients having a primary hip or knee replacement voluntarily score their health before and after surgery. The average gain shown is adjusted for differences between patients (case-mix) — it is not a raw before/after difference and not a ranking, so read it alongside the patient numbers.

Hip replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
20.7
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 19.8
Patients
52
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
94.2%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.45
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
14.1
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 14.1
Patients
137
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
90.5%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.25
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale

Source: NHS England PROMs (hip & knee replacement). About this data

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics and PROMs. About this data

About this data

The rating on this page comes from the Care Quality Commission's directory and Syndication API — the same source used for NHS hospital pages on this site. We do not hold this hospital's private-pay volumes, fees, waiting times, PROMs or safety data (that data is licensed separately by the Private Healthcare Information Network and is not available under an open licence). NHS England separately publishes this hospital's own NHS-funded RTT waiting-time and PROMs activity, matched via its NHS provider code — shown above, clearly marked as NHS-funded activity only. Read the full methodology.