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Spire Norwich Hospital

Independent hospital

Old Watton Road, Norwich, NR4 7TD · Run by Spire Healthcare Limited · 01603456181 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 24 July 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 Norwich 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.

Medical care (including older people's care)Good
Safe
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated August 2016
Outpatients and diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated August 2016

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
923
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
73.0%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
12.4 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
1
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
05001,000Sept 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 2692359September 202397October 2023112November 2023131December 2023153January 2024166February 2024183March 2024209April 2024226May 2024215June 2024248July 2024243August 2024249September 2024247October 2024252November 2024270December 2024258January 2025307February 2025358March 2025451April 2025513May 2025544June 2025480July 2025548August 2025551September 2025452October 2025499November 2025441December 2025542January 2026639February 2026957March 2026974April 2026923May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
70%80%90%100%Sept 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%73.0%98.3%September 202397.9%October 202398.2%November 2023100.0%December 2023100.0%January 2024100.0%February 2024100.0%March 2024100.0%April 202498.2%May 202499.1%June 2024100.0%July 2024100.0%August 202498.0%September 202496.4%October 202498.4%November 202494.1%December 202493.8%January 202596.1%February 202587.7%March 202587.6%April 202590.1%May 202593.6%June 202582.9%July 202588.1%August 202591.7%September 202592.3%October 202592.2%November 2025100.0%December 202594.3%January 202695.8%February 202678.4%March 202676.6%April 202673.0%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic91573.1%12.4 wks26.8 wks110
General Surgery862.5%15.5 wks22.4 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)
23.3
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 24.3
Patients
43
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
97.7%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.45
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
17.6
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 17.8
Patients
41
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
95.1%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.33
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.