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Nuffield Health The Grosvenor Hospital Chester

Independent hospital

Wrexham Road, Chester, CH4 7QP · Run by Nuffield Health · 01244680444 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 23 December 2016 — 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 The Grosvenor Hospital Chesteris 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 July 2015. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Medical care (including older people's care)Not yet rated
rated December 2016
Outpatients and diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated December 2016
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated December 2016

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

Nuffield Health The Grosvenor Hospital Chester 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 The Grosvenor Hospital Chesteralso carries out private-pay work, which is not shown here or anywhere on this site (see methodology).

NHS-funded waiting list
479
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
69.3%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
12.6 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
1
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
300400500600Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26479304April 2023336May 2023358June 2023363July 2023376August 2023376September 2023349October 2023354November 2023367December 2023351January 2024291February 2024307March 2024300April 2024286May 2024310June 2024296July 2024314August 2024310September 2024327October 2024315November 2024332December 2024300January 2025311February 2025311March 2025316April 2025340May 2025341June 2025384July 2025422August 2025428September 2025469October 2025537November 2025580December 2025493January 2026502February 2026409March 2026444April 2026479May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%70%80%90%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%69.3%80.6%April 202382.1%May 202379.9%June 202379.3%July 202382.4%August 202382.4%September 202386.8%October 202386.7%November 202384.2%December 202381.2%January 202473.9%February 202468.1%March 202463.3%April 202471.7%May 202472.6%June 202480.4%July 202482.5%August 202482.9%September 202482.6%October 202484.4%November 202481.0%December 202477.3%January 202578.5%February 202578.5%March 202578.8%April 202578.5%May 202573.6%June 202583.3%July 202578.9%August 202577.1%September 202568.4%October 202565.2%November 202564.3%December 202569.6%January 202663.5%February 202663.3%March 202664.4%April 202669.3%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic41174.7%11.8 wks28.6 wks100
General Surgery4751.1%17.8 wks31.2 wks000
Other - Others214.8%31.8 wks43.4 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)
22.7
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 23.2
Patients
64
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
98.4%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.52
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
15.8
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 15.0
Patients
69
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
89.9%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.34
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.