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Nuffield Health Plymouth Hospital

Independent hospital

Derriford Road, Plymouth, PL6 8BG · Run by Nuffield Health · 01752775861 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 19 July 2022 — 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 Plymouth 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 May 2022. 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 November 2015
Services for children & young peopleGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated July 2022
SurgeryOutstanding
Safe
Good
Effective
Outstanding
Caring
Outstanding
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated July 2022

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
1,011
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
66.9%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
13.3 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
9
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
7501,0001,250Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 261,011653April 2023704May 2023908June 2023901July 2023898August 20231,043September 20231,098October 20231,248November 20231,346December 20231,249January 20241,220February 20241,116March 2024985April 2024986May 20241,071June 20241,149July 20241,151August 20241,138September 20241,165October 20241,288November 20241,318December 20241,125January 20251,158February 20251,050March 20251,022April 2025996May 2025902June 2025979July 2025998August 20251,035September 2025997October 2025981November 20251,060December 2025950January 2026933February 2026887March 2026946April 20261,011May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%66.9%66.8%April 202366.3%May 202371.6%June 202370.3%July 202369.0%August 202369.5%September 202364.7%October 202362.1%November 202357.9%December 202357.9%January 202456.8%February 202459.0%March 202454.5%April 202450.8%May 202458.9%June 202458.6%July 202466.1%August 202465.8%September 202468.0%October 202466.8%November 202462.2%December 202460.7%January 202559.4%February 202554.6%March 202556.2%April 202551.1%May 202554.9%June 202564.1%July 202567.3%August 202566.3%September 202564.5%October 202565.3%November 202564.9%December 202564.1%January 202663.6%February 202663.0%March 202664.3%April 202666.9%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic58466.4%13.3 wks35.9 wks810
General Surgery15175.5%12.4 wks27.0 wks000
Neurosurgical14852.7%16.6 wks33.6 wks100
Other - Others6371.4%13.1 wks35.0 wks000
Plastic Surgery3565.7%14.3 wks40.2 wks000
Gastroenterology21100.0%4.8 wks7.7 wks000
Urology977.8%11.5 wks40.3 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)
23.1
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 21.3
Patients
140
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
98.6%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.46
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
17.8
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 16.5
Patients
145
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
95.9%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.35
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.