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Spire Fylde Coast Hospital

Independent hospital

Fylde Coast Hospital, Blackpool, FY3 8BP · Run by Spire Healthcare Limited

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 2 September 2019 — 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 Fylde Coast 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 April 2019. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated September 2019
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated September 2019
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated September 2019

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
3,531
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
72.6%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
13.0 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
4
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
3,0004,0005,000Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 263,5312,890April 20232,995May 20233,014June 20232,942July 20232,942August 20233,181September 20233,381October 20232,871November 20232,827December 20232,698January 20243,186February 20242,551March 20242,565April 20242,607May 20242,584June 20242,796July 20242,640August 20242,696September 20242,569October 20243,165November 20242,960December 20243,083January 20252,994February 20253,137March 20253,486April 20253,489May 20254,024June 20254,177July 20254,004August 20254,594September 20254,877October 20254,135November 20254,262December 20254,631January 20264,981February 20263,347March 20263,362April 20263,531May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
70%80%90%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%72.6%75.8%April 202377.0%May 202378.4%June 202375.5%July 202372.8%August 202372.8%September 202375.0%October 202374.4%November 202368.7%December 202365.9%January 202472.0%February 202485.4%March 202480.4%April 202481.5%May 202483.6%June 202482.3%July 202479.5%August 202480.2%September 202478.8%October 202482.1%November 202482.2%December 202481.2%January 202579.6%February 202580.0%March 202578.7%April 202580.2%May 202578.8%June 202578.2%July 202580.8%August 202580.0%September 202578.4%October 202587.1%November 202581.0%December 202571.1%January 202667.5%February 202683.3%March 202683.4%April 202672.6%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic1,99876.9%11.8 wks27.4 wks300
Other - Surgicals43728.8%19.0 wks20.9 wks000
General Surgery39579.7%8.7 wks25.2 wks000
Gynaecology33581.5%7.9 wks26.7 wks000
Urology16487.8%6.6 wks20.4 wks000
Neurosurgical10981.7%14.7 wks24.1 wks000
Ear Nose and Throat8785.1%8.2 wks24.5 wks100
Gastroenterology560.0%16.5 wks37.6 wks000
Neurology1100.0%1.5 wks1.9 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)
22.6
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 20.3
Patients
71
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
97.2%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.42
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
16.4
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 16.3
Patients
120
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
95.8%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.30
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.