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Oaks Hospital

Independent hospital

Oaks Place, Colchester, CO4 5XR · Run by Ramsay Health Care UK Operations Limited · 01206752121 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 10 March 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.

Oaks 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

Oaks 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 only — Oaks Hospitalalso carries out private-pay work, which is not shown here or anywhere on this site (see methodology).

NHS-funded waiting list
1,051
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
57.3%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
15.5 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
8001,0001,200Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 261,051866April 2023896May 2023877June 2023897July 2023914August 2023910September 2023881October 2023896November 2023905December 2023919January 2024919February 2024895March 2024913April 2024937May 2024911June 2024867July 2024855August 2024880September 2024805October 2024796November 2024848December 2024792January 2025736February 2025738March 2025709April 2025669May 2025729June 2025746July 2025785August 2025764September 2025809October 2025885November 2025913December 2025990January 20261,101February 20261,146March 20261,122April 20261,051May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%57.3%48.7%April 202352.7%May 202352.1%June 202349.2%July 202348.9%August 202352.1%September 202350.9%October 202350.0%November 202351.2%December 202350.8%January 202450.2%February 202447.7%March 202450.7%April 202450.6%May 202446.3%June 202446.5%July 202448.9%August 202449.7%September 202445.1%October 202443.2%November 202445.4%December 202448.5%January 202549.5%February 202551.8%March 202551.6%April 202553.5%May 202553.8%June 202554.3%July 202558.2%August 202563.2%September 202565.8%October 202563.6%November 202563.9%December 202563.8%January 202656.5%February 202657.3%March 202657.8%April 202657.3%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic37758.4%14.9 wks35.2 wks000
General Surgery29354.9%16.6 wks34.3 wks000
Gynaecology15364.7%13.9 wks33.9 wks000
Ear Nose and Throat8955.1%16.9 wks35.0 wks000
Other - Medicals8451.2%16.0 wks36.1 wks000
Ophthalmology2867.9%12.0 wks32.8 wks000
Urology1717.6%38.8 wks47.3 wks000
Gastroenterology988.9%6.5 wks38.3 wks000
Other - Others10.0%26.5 wks26.9 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
14
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Patients
11
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.