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Nuffield Health North Staffordshire Hospital

Independent hospital

Clayton Road, Newcastle, ST5 4DB · Run by Nuffield Health · 01782625431 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 31 August 2018 — 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 North Staffordshire 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 November 2021. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated January 2020
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Outstanding
Well-led
Good
rated January 2020
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated January 2022

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
1,167
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
71.1%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
11.1 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
10
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
1,0001,500Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 261,1671,501April 20231,289May 20231,343June 20231,390July 20231,496August 20231,565September 20231,687October 20231,711November 20231,776December 20231,695January 20241,678February 20241,588March 2024971April 20241,300May 20241,460June 20241,448July 20241,463August 20241,178September 20241,228October 20241,760November 20241,857December 20241,365January 20251,311February 20251,156March 20251,471April 20251,527May 20251,614June 20251,528July 20251,479August 20251,379September 20251,136October 20251,108November 20251,097December 20251,076January 20261,145February 20261,328March 20261,228April 20261,167May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%71.1%59.0%April 202368.3%May 202363.4%June 202354.2%July 202351.4%August 202352.0%September 202355.8%October 202345.9%November 202346.7%December 202342.7%January 202443.3%February 202448.3%March 202461.8%April 202478.5%May 202479.9%June 202482.3%July 202480.0%August 202477.8%September 202474.9%October 202478.7%November 202477.0%December 202470.5%January 202569.6%February 202562.0%March 202567.0%April 202575.0%May 202577.1%June 202577.2%July 202577.3%August 202574.8%September 202574.5%October 202576.9%November 202573.2%December 202562.2%January 202656.2%February 202648.6%March 202660.3%April 202671.1%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic98271.7%11.1 wks36.3 wks620
Ophthalmology14466.7%12.3 wks35.9 wks210
General Surgery4173.2%8.8 wks43.7 wks200

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)
22.1
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 20.9
Patients
179
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
95.5%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.44
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
16.8
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 16.1
Patients
211
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
96.2%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.32
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.