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Lincoln Private Hospital

Independent hospital

Nettleham Road, Lincoln, LN2 1QU · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01522578000 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 27 May 2016 — 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.

Lincoln 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
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good

The Care Quality Commission rates hospitals on five questions. This location was last inspected February 2016. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Outpatients and diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated May 2016
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated May 2016

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
1,164
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
62.2%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
13.1 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
1,0001,2501,500Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 261,164867April 2023938May 2023925June 2023995July 20231,001August 20231,111September 20231,167October 20231,284November 20231,371December 20231,447January 20241,541February 20241,554March 20241,644April 20241,647May 20241,653June 20241,601July 20241,628August 20241,541September 20241,461October 20241,454November 20241,542December 20241,409January 20251,401February 20251,213March 20251,231April 20251,215May 20251,261June 20251,278July 20251,260August 20251,269September 20251,272October 20251,279November 20251,263December 20251,226January 20261,230February 20261,126March 20261,152April 20261,164May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%62.2%70.5%April 202375.8%May 202375.9%June 202375.2%July 202377.1%August 202378.4%September 202377.7%October 202377.1%November 202373.8%December 202374.9%January 202474.5%February 202473.8%March 202472.1%April 202470.5%May 202468.7%June 202466.9%July 202466.5%August 202467.0%September 202466.1%October 202466.0%November 202463.9%December 202468.8%January 202567.7%February 202571.7%March 202569.1%April 202566.9%May 202567.9%June 202570.3%July 202570.6%August 202571.9%September 202571.6%October 202570.0%November 202568.0%December 202568.4%January 202666.5%February 202659.0%March 202658.9%April 202662.2%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic89563.7%12.6 wks35.4 wks000
Ophthalmology13563.0%14.5 wks32.2 wks000
Urology7458.1%15.0 wks36.5 wks000
General Surgery3938.5%25.5 wks42.9 wks000
Gastroenterology2152.4%14.5 wks38.3 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)
22.3
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 24.5
Patients
41
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.43
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
16.0
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 15.7
Patients
70
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
94.3%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.31
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.