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Duchy Hospital

Independent hospital

Penventinnie Lane, Truro, TR1 3UP · Run by Ramsay Health Care UK Operations Limited · 01872226100 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 2 August 2022 — 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.

Duchy 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 inspection ratings

Safe
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good

The Care Quality Commission rates hospitals on five questions. This location was last inspected May 2022. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

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 August 2022
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated August 2022
SurgeryGood
Safe
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Outstanding
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated August 2022

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

Duchy 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 onlyDuchy Hospitalalso carries out private-pay work, which is not shown here or anywhere on this site (see methodology).

NHS-funded waiting list
1,729
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
63.9%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
13.0 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
10
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
1,0001,5002,000Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 261,7291,056April 20231,042May 20231,056June 20231,112July 20231,171August 20231,172September 20231,299October 20231,470November 20231,546December 20231,511January 20241,491February 20241,545March 20241,688April 20241,667May 20241,485June 20241,414July 20241,476August 20241,510September 20241,596October 20241,782November 20241,767December 20241,841January 20251,912February 20251,999March 20252,078April 20252,051May 20252,020June 20251,955July 20251,938August 20252,005September 20251,992October 20252,094November 20252,126December 20251,783January 20261,776February 20261,620March 20261,736April 20261,729May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%63.9%44.0%April 202346.9%May 202345.1%June 202342.0%July 202337.6%August 202336.3%September 202340.3%October 202343.1%November 202345.3%December 202351.5%January 202452.0%February 202446.7%March 202446.9%April 202446.9%May 202453.4%June 202451.7%July 202452.4%August 202453.5%September 202454.0%October 202455.1%November 202456.0%December 202455.2%January 202554.3%February 202553.9%March 202551.0%April 202551.0%May 202551.4%June 202550.5%July 202550.7%August 202553.1%September 202551.7%October 202548.8%November 202546.2%December 202551.7%January 202655.1%February 202660.5%March 202661.9%April 202663.9%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic1,24554.5%15.9 wks40.3 wks900
General Surgery35889.7%7.6 wks18.9 wks000
Cardiology12683.3%12.3 wks20.0 wks100

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)
24.4
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 23.6
Patients
60
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.50
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
16.6
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 15.9
Patients
61
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
95.1%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.41
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.