HospitalCheck

Spire South Bank Hospital

Independent hospital

139 Bath Road, Worcester, WR5 3YB · Run by Spire Healthcare Limited · 01905350003 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 10 February 2022 — this rating applies to this specific location. About this data

View the full CQC report & inspection history →

Contains public sector information from the Care Quality Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Spire South Bank 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 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.

Outpatients and diagnostic imagingRequires improvement
Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated November 2017
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2022

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
748
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
65.6%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
14.3 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
1
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
8001,0001,2001,400Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 267481,188April 20231,159May 20231,179June 20231,224July 20231,240August 20231,282September 20231,267October 20231,280November 20231,316December 20231,370January 20241,358February 20241,272March 20241,045April 2024903May 2024799June 2024781July 2024841August 2024850September 2024896October 2024845November 2024806December 2024783January 2025815February 2025841March 2025872April 2025803May 2025792June 2025778July 2025864August 2025892September 2025912October 2025952November 2025961December 2025951January 2026925February 2026842March 2026761April 2026748May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%65.6%69.0%April 202367.2%May 202366.8%June 202366.4%July 202369.1%August 202365.7%September 202363.5%October 202363.9%November 202362.6%December 202361.1%January 202463.5%February 202458.0%March 202452.2%April 202444.9%May 202445.3%June 202458.9%July 202465.9%August 202468.1%September 202475.1%October 202475.5%November 202472.5%December 202469.9%January 202575.5%February 202577.8%March 202575.7%April 202574.7%May 202573.6%June 202570.3%July 202570.9%August 202574.9%September 202574.1%October 202579.1%November 202579.1%December 202577.3%January 202679.1%February 202676.4%March 202669.5%April 202665.6%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic56459.6%14.7 wks33.6 wks110
General Surgery16683.1%8.2 wks20.5 wks000
Gastroenterology1593.3%11.3 wks17.8 wks000
Other - Surgicals3100.0%5.5 wks16.8 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)
22.5
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 22.9
Patients
63
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
95.2%
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)
16.5
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 18.2
Patients
81
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.