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Lancaster Private Hospital

Independent hospital

Meadowside, Lancaster, LA1 3RH · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 0152462345 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Requires improvement

CQC rating published 15 October 2019 — 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.

Lancaster Private 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
Requires improvement
Well-led
Requires improvement

The Care Quality Commission rates hospitals on five questions. This location was last inspected May 2019. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Diagnostic imagingRequires improvement
Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Requires improvement
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated October 2019
Medical care (including older people's care)Not yet rated
rated October 2019
OutpatientsRequires improvement
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Requires improvement
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated October 2019
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated October 2019

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
296
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
90.2%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
5.5 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
1
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
200300400500Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26296528April 2023419May 2023387June 2023390July 2023354August 2023220September 2023229October 2023262November 2023292December 2023243January 2024232February 2024294March 2024332April 2024359May 2024379June 2024422July 2024433August 2024475September 2024451October 2024383November 2024388December 2024421January 2025434February 2025420March 2025432April 2025420May 2025422June 2025421July 2025408August 2025354September 2025343October 2025339November 2025302December 2025291January 2026336February 2026332March 2026299April 2026296May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%90.2%39.8%April 202351.8%May 202359.7%June 202361.8%July 202359.3%August 202389.1%September 202390.0%October 202390.1%November 202382.9%December 202393.4%January 202491.4%February 202491.2%March 202489.2%April 202487.7%May 202489.2%June 202485.3%July 202481.3%August 202478.9%September 202471.6%October 202478.6%November 202472.4%December 202467.9%January 202570.5%February 202574.8%March 202573.8%April 202579.0%May 202579.4%June 202579.3%July 202574.8%August 202571.2%September 202570.0%October 202569.6%November 202569.2%December 202571.5%January 202671.4%February 202675.6%March 202684.6%April 202690.2%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic22190.0%6.1 wks19.7 wks100
Gynaecology47100.0%3.3 wks6.7 wks000
General Surgery2676.9%8.0 wks26.9 wks000
Cardiology10.0%29.5 wks29.9 wks000
Other - Others1100.0%2.5 wks2.9 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
Patients
18
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
94.4%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Patients
22
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
95.5%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before

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.