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Spire Bristol Hospital

Independent hospital

The Glen, Bristol, BS6 6UT · Run by Spire Healthcare Limited · 01179804000 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 23 June 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.

Spire Bristol 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
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good

The Care Quality Commission rates hospitals on five questions. This location was last inspected March 2022. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Critical careGood
Safe
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated June 2022
Diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated June 2022
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated June 2022
Services for children & young peopleGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Requires improvement
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated June 2022
SurgeryRequires improvement
Safe
Good
Effective
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated June 2022

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

Spire Bristol 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 onlySpire Bristol Hospitalalso carries out private-pay work, which is not shown here or anywhere on this site (see methodology).

NHS-funded waiting list
794
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
58.3%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
15.6 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
11
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
700800900Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26794712April 2023764May 2023745June 2023770July 2023806August 2023911September 2023903October 2023884November 2023915December 2023910January 2024881February 2024897March 2024878April 2024922May 2024929June 2024935July 2024814August 2024775September 2024800October 2024761November 2024710December 2024781January 2025772February 2025792March 2025742April 2025741May 2025775June 2025756July 2025762August 2025743September 2025746October 2025728November 2025798December 2025818January 2026843February 2026755March 2026733April 2026794May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%58.3%50.6%April 202353.0%May 202353.0%June 202355.3%July 202355.1%August 202355.7%September 202353.5%October 202357.6%November 202354.9%December 202355.1%January 202455.6%February 202456.4%March 202454.2%April 202456.5%May 202453.8%June 202448.7%July 202454.9%August 202451.0%September 202450.7%October 202449.4%November 202451.8%December 202453.8%January 202558.9%February 202560.4%March 202563.3%April 202568.0%May 202566.5%June 202564.6%July 202566.1%August 202562.7%September 202565.8%October 202562.6%November 202560.5%December 202559.0%January 202658.7%February 202654.4%March 202654.0%April 202658.3%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic79358.3%15.6 wks39.8 wks1100
General Surgery1100.0%2.5 wks2.9 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
Average health gain (adjusted)
22.9
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 20.7
Patients
122
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
97.5%
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)
17.0
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 16.3
Patients
108
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
93.5%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.31
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.