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Spire Cambridge Lea Hospital

Independent hospital

30 New Road, Cambridge, CB24 9EL · Run by Spire Healthcare Limited · 01223266900 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 27 August 2026 — 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 Cambridge Lea 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 December 2016

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
382
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
70.7%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
13.5 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
2
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
200400600Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26382538April 2023427May 2023440June 2023468July 2023470August 2023484September 2023560October 2023490November 2023426December 2023394January 2024355February 2024448March 2024475April 2024322May 2024334June 2024263July 2024259August 2024267September 2024220October 2024274November 2024299December 2024387January 2025337February 2025356March 2025342April 2025383May 2025394June 2025434July 2025353August 2025340September 2025320October 2025334November 2025275December 2025209January 2026260February 2026316March 2026309April 2026382May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
25%50%75%100%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%70.7%29.2%April 202339.3%May 202335.9%June 202340.8%July 202345.1%August 202348.3%September 202351.2%October 202351.8%November 202349.5%December 202337.1%January 202423.9%February 202439.1%March 202443.8%April 202457.5%May 202451.5%June 202455.1%July 202465.3%August 202462.5%September 202466.8%October 202473.0%November 202471.9%December 202462.5%January 202565.3%February 202568.3%March 202568.4%April 202577.3%May 202577.7%June 202581.6%July 202581.9%August 202578.8%September 202574.4%October 202573.7%November 202572.4%December 202569.9%January 202663.5%February 202657.3%March 202659.2%April 202670.7%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic27268.8%13.7 wks34.6 wks220
General Surgery8976.4%14.1 wks31.4 wks000
Neurosurgical2070.0%8.0 wks32.4 wks000
Ear Nose and Throat1100.0%12.5 wks12.9 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)
22.3
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 22.4
Patients
106
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
97.2%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.43
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
15.2
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 14.8
Patients
108
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
94.4%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.28
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.