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Nuffield Health Cheltenham Hospital

Independent hospital

Hatherley Lane, Cheltenham, GL51 6SY · Run by Nuffield Health · 01242246500 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 29 July 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.

Nuffield Health Cheltenham 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

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

NHS-funded waiting list
40
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
47.5%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
19.0 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
1
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
50100Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 264098April 202397May 202382June 202392July 202378August 202374September 202363October 202360November 202367December 202380January 202493February 202493March 202473April 202457May 202441June 202443July 202436August 202439September 202450October 202433November 202429December 202436January 202556February 202546March 202534April 202529May 202543June 202552July 2025112August 2025136September 2025117October 202585November 202564December 202579January 202656February 202630March 202647April 202640May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
25%50%75%100%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%47.5%44.9%April 202347.4%May 202347.6%June 202356.5%July 202366.7%August 202363.5%September 202368.3%October 202343.3%November 202346.3%December 202336.3%January 202425.8%February 202437.6%March 202428.8%April 202419.3%May 202414.6%June 202418.6%July 202422.2%August 202448.7%September 202434.0%October 202427.3%November 202441.4%December 202441.7%January 202532.1%February 202532.6%March 202550.0%April 202541.4%May 202520.9%June 202515.4%July 202514.3%August 202514.7%September 202513.7%October 202511.8%November 202512.5%December 202515.2%January 202632.1%February 202660.0%March 202638.3%April 202647.5%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic3847.4%19.0 wks48.5 wks000
Other - Medicals10.0%53.5 wks53.9 wks100
Other - Others1100.0%14.5 wks14.9 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
3
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Patients
2
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
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.