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Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital

Independent hospital

Wonford Road, Exeter, EX2 4UG · Run by Nuffield Health · 01392262111 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 5 June 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 Exeter 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 ratings by service

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

Outpatients and diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated October 2016

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
390
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
49.5%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
18.1 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
20
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
0200400600Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 2639066April 202370May 202389June 202379July 202359August 202348September 202343October 202342November 202342December 202370January 202496February 2024112March 2024167April 2024224May 2024269June 2024305July 2024300August 2024314September 2024311October 2024329November 2024329December 2024334January 2025383February 2025423March 2025473April 2025520May 2025585June 2025584July 2025521August 2025518September 2025434October 2025431November 2025466December 2025468January 2026499February 2026416March 2026381April 2026390May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
25%50%75%100%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%49.5%45.5%April 202357.1%May 202323.6%June 202317.7%July 202320.3%August 202335.4%September 202332.6%October 202328.6%November 202326.2%December 202387.1%January 202484.4%February 202482.1%March 202475.4%April 202468.3%May 202471.4%June 202457.0%July 202447.0%August 202438.2%September 202428.9%October 202427.1%November 202421.6%December 202424.3%January 202525.8%February 202533.6%March 202540.8%April 202540.2%May 202545.0%June 202542.0%July 202542.2%August 202527.6%September 202528.1%October 202532.5%November 202540.3%December 202542.7%January 202642.9%February 202646.6%March 202649.1%April 202649.5%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic19651.5%17.6 wks49.3 wks1453
General Surgery18150.3%18.0 wks40.8 wks210
Cardiology1010.0%46.0 wks57.2 wks300
Other - Others30.0%18.8 wks52.8 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.

Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
18.7
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 19.4
Patients
68
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
98.5%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.38
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.