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Spire Little Aston Hospital

Independent hospital

Little Aston Hall Drive, Sutton Coldfield, B74 3UP · Run by Spire Healthcare Limited · 01213532444 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 18 November 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 Little Aston 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 June 2019. 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 November 2019
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated November 2019
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated November 2019

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
1,353
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
70.8%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
8.6 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
11
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
1,2001,4001,600Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 261,3531,554April 20231,470May 20231,579June 20231,635July 20231,598August 20231,650September 20231,661October 20231,450November 20231,483December 20231,575January 20241,546February 20241,590March 20241,535April 20241,504May 20241,486June 20241,475July 20241,393August 20241,385September 20241,403October 20241,413November 20241,575December 20241,551January 20251,624February 20251,679March 20251,706April 20251,606May 20251,538June 20251,464July 20251,343August 20251,313September 20251,286October 20251,212November 20251,215December 20251,342January 20261,474February 20261,339March 20261,185April 20261,353May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
70%80%90%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%70.8%65.6%April 202366.7%May 202369.0%June 202369.7%July 202372.8%August 202373.5%September 202374.1%October 202373.4%November 202370.7%December 202372.3%January 202473.0%February 202472.1%March 202475.5%April 202477.2%May 202476.4%June 202477.8%July 202481.1%August 202479.8%September 202484.5%October 202486.1%November 202486.1%December 202482.3%January 202582.1%February 202581.9%March 202583.3%April 202580.3%May 202579.4%June 202580.0%July 202581.9%August 202583.5%September 202581.8%October 202584.2%November 202586.8%December 202583.0%January 202677.4%February 202670.7%March 202667.8%April 202670.8%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic1,02569.8%7.9 wks31.1 wks1130
General Surgery23278.0%6.9 wks28.1 wks000
Gynaecology8767.8%16.3 wks31.0 wks000
Other - Surgicals825.0%20.7 wks37.4 wks000
Gastroenterology1100.0%6.5 wks6.9 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)
22.1
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 22.4
Patients
105
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
98.1%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.41
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): 16.2
Patients
147
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
93.2%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.27
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.