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Spire Hartswood Hospital

Independent hospital

Eagle Way, Brentwood, CM13 3LE · Run by Spire Healthcare Limited · 01277232525 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 22 March 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 Hartswood 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
Outstanding

The Care Quality Commission rates hospitals on five questions. This location was last inspected December 2021. 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 April 2020
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Outstanding
rated March 2022
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Outstanding
rated March 2022

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
1,003
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
66.5%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
14.1 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
3
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
1,0001,2501,5001,750Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 261,0031,048April 20231,095May 20231,235June 20231,430July 20231,523August 20231,598September 20231,641October 20231,652November 20231,559December 20231,660January 20241,734February 20241,659March 20241,575April 20241,492May 20241,503June 20241,573July 20241,690August 20241,589September 20241,427October 20241,336November 20241,449December 20241,309January 20251,304February 20251,289March 20251,499April 20251,426May 20251,410June 20251,390July 20251,399August 20251,271September 20251,214October 20251,186November 20251,094December 20251,270January 20261,377February 20261,175March 20261,074April 20261,003May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%70%80%90%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%66.5%78.0%April 202377.4%May 202376.9%June 202375.8%July 202375.5%August 202374.2%September 202371.8%October 202370.7%November 202366.3%December 202364.4%January 202461.4%February 202466.5%March 202463.1%April 202462.5%May 202460.9%June 202462.8%July 202466.6%August 202471.7%September 202473.2%October 202475.1%November 202475.3%December 202472.6%January 202571.5%February 202570.4%March 202572.6%April 202572.9%May 202569.4%June 202563.5%July 202568.8%August 202570.8%September 202569.2%October 202572.7%November 202571.6%December 202572.0%January 202672.4%February 202672.7%March 202673.1%April 202666.5%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic84064.9%14.8 wks32.7 wks300
General Surgery16174.5%10.2 wks28.1 wks000
Gastroenterology2100.0%10.5 wks10.9 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)
21.9
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 22.2
Patients
89
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
97.8%
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)
15.9
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 15.6
Patients
120
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
90.0%
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.