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Nuffield Health Tunbridge Wells Hospital

Independent hospital

Kingswood Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN2 4UL · Run by Nuffield Health · 01892531111 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 11 July 2017 — 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 Tunbridge Wells 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 February 2017. 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)Good
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated July 2017
Outpatients and diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated July 2017
Services for children & young peopleGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated July 2017
SurgeryGood
Safe
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated July 2017

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
99
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
84.8%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
8.8 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
200400Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 2699519April 2023471May 2023451June 2023469July 2023410August 2023406September 2023382October 2023400November 2023449December 2023505January 2024443February 2024438March 2024408April 2024329May 2024259June 2024254July 2024282August 2024308September 2024278October 2024340November 2024219December 2024250January 2025242February 2025218March 2025158April 2025222May 2025194June 2025159July 2025133August 2025125September 202583October 202581November 2025135December 2025135January 2026198February 202672March 202679April 202699May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%84.8%52.0%April 202354.4%May 202349.2%June 202345.8%July 202342.9%August 202340.1%September 202336.1%October 202340.0%November 202339.9%December 202341.8%January 202439.5%February 202445.7%March 202446.8%April 202463.2%May 202462.5%June 202458.3%July 202461.7%August 202465.3%September 202461.5%October 202450.3%November 202452.1%December 202445.6%January 202543.4%February 202543.6%March 202555.1%April 202553.6%May 202550.5%June 202545.9%July 202551.1%August 202560.0%September 202568.7%October 202580.2%November 202562.2%December 202551.1%January 202644.4%February 202663.9%March 202677.2%April 202684.8%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic7582.7%8.6 wks26.0 wks000
General Surgery13100.0%8.3 wks15.5 wks000
Gynaecology887.5%10.5 wks19.4 wks000
Urology2100.0%11.0 wks11.8 wks000
Ear Nose and Throat10.0%28.5 wks28.9 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
Knee replacement
Patients
7
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
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.