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Spire Murrayfield Hospital

Independent hospital

Holmwood Drive, Wirral, CH61 1AU · Run by Spire Healthcare Limited · 08456002110 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 21 July 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 Murrayfield 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 2022. 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 July 2022
Medical care (including older people's care)Good
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated July 2022
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated July 2022
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated July 2022
Termination of pregnancyNot yet rated
rated April 2017

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
870
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
77.1%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
8.6 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
2
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
400600800Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26870423April 2023354May 2023331June 2023389July 2023502August 2023708September 2023647October 2023580November 2023581December 2023559January 2024529February 2024496March 2024549April 2024610May 2024627June 2024740July 2024662August 2024656September 2024621October 2024549November 2024537December 2024514January 2025506February 2025542March 2025544April 2025559May 2025538June 2025629July 2025629August 2025728September 2025787October 2025796November 2025771December 2025830January 2026912February 2026829March 2026749April 2026870May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
70%80%90%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%77.1%91.5%April 202391.8%May 202389.7%June 202390.5%July 202394.6%August 202394.6%September 202394.7%October 202392.8%November 202392.9%December 202391.9%January 202491.5%February 202493.5%March 202491.8%April 202492.8%May 202493.5%June 202495.3%July 202494.1%August 202488.7%September 202493.2%October 202492.7%November 202493.3%December 202492.2%January 202593.3%February 202594.8%March 202593.8%April 202591.1%May 202596.1%June 202596.3%July 202594.1%August 202594.8%September 202593.8%October 202593.6%November 202592.3%December 202588.6%January 202683.3%February 202672.6%March 202675.0%April 202677.1%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic49776.9%8.7 wks26.9 wks000
General Surgery23678.8%7.9 wks29.1 wks210
Other - Surgicals7972.2%9.1 wks34.2 wks000
Urology5178.4%8.5 wks26.3 wks000
Gastroenterology785.7%11.5 wks18.4 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)
20.8
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 20.1
Patients
59
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
91.5%
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)
17.0
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 17.7
Patients
85
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
97.6%
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.