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Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital

Independent hospital

Venns Lane, Hereford, HR1 1DF · Run by Nuffield Health · 01432355131 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 14 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 Hereford 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
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated March 2017

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
398
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
76.9%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
10.0 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
200300400500Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26398215April 2023225May 2023222June 2023207July 2023244August 2023255September 2023269October 2023266November 2023272December 2023256January 2024242February 2024259March 2024242April 2024209May 2024193June 2024230July 2024199August 2024188September 2024201October 2024206November 2024248December 2024274January 2025222February 2025194March 2025205April 2025212May 2025266June 2025297July 2025322August 2025336September 2025345October 2025348November 2025401December 2025408January 2026457February 2026487March 2026462April 2026398May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%80%100%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%76.9%57.7%April 202367.6%May 202377.0%June 202381.2%July 202378.7%August 202374.5%September 202375.1%October 202374.4%November 202370.6%December 202370.3%January 202469.0%February 202470.3%March 202470.7%April 202476.6%May 202474.1%June 202473.0%July 202478.4%August 202476.1%September 202479.1%October 202476.7%November 202470.6%December 202466.4%January 202580.6%February 202585.6%March 202594.1%April 202594.3%May 202594.4%June 202594.9%July 202596.0%August 202595.2%September 202588.7%October 202587.9%November 202586.3%December 202582.4%January 202673.3%February 202670.8%March 202670.3%April 202676.9%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic32577.8%9.9 wks24.6 wks000
General Surgery6971.0%10.8 wks28.6 wks000
Other - Others4100.0%1.3 wks1.9 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
19
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Patients
21
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
90.5%
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.