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Fulwood Hall Hospital

Independent hospital

Midgery Lane, Preston, PR2 9SZ · Run by Ramsay Health Care UK Operations Limited · 01772704111 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 26 August 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.

Fulwood Hall 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.

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
4,110
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
72.5%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
10.3 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
4,0005,0006,000Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 264,1105,219April 20235,209May 20235,270June 20235,328July 20235,400August 20235,715September 20236,013October 20236,218November 20236,198December 20236,129January 20246,144February 20245,513March 20245,241April 20245,391May 20245,452June 20245,708July 20245,896August 20246,153September 20246,308October 20246,274November 20246,502December 20246,411January 20256,225February 20255,957March 20255,765April 20255,280May 20255,596June 20255,780July 20255,286August 20255,234September 20255,172October 20254,840November 20254,333December 20254,190January 20264,221February 20264,313March 20264,419April 20264,110May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%72.5%56.2%April 202358.2%May 202357.7%June 202356.1%July 202357.2%August 202358.1%September 202358.1%October 202358.1%November 202357.5%December 202358.3%January 202457.4%February 202458.3%March 202467.5%April 202468.2%May 202470.1%June 202469.5%July 202467.7%August 202466.4%September 202466.4%October 202464.4%November 202464.5%December 202463.7%January 202562.8%February 202561.8%March 202563.9%April 202567.3%May 202568.2%June 202569.4%July 202573.6%August 202576.7%September 202576.2%October 202575.7%November 202573.9%December 202574.2%January 202672.6%February 202671.4%March 202670.3%April 202672.5%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic2,30970.7%10.8 wks31.4 wks000
Gynaecology56455.9%15.3 wks38.8 wks000
General Surgery51983.0%8.2 wks24.1 wks000
Urology45579.6%8.9 wks27.8 wks000
Ophthalmology22689.8%8.4 wks19.0 wks000
Other - Medicals28100.0%4.0 wks16.9 wks000
Plastic Surgery6100.0%6.0 wks12.5 wks000
Other - Surgicals2100.0%13.0 wks13.8 wks000
Gastroenterology1100.0%8.5 wks8.9 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)
22.7
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 21.6
Patients
86
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
97.7%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.47
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
14.5
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 14.9
Patients
81
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
95.1%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.34
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.