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Spire Wellesley Hospital

Independent hospital

Eastern Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 4XH · Run by Spire Healthcare Limited · 01702462944 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 6 March 2023 — 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 Wellesley 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 September 2022. 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 December 2016
Outpatients and diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated December 2016
Services for children & young peopleGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated September 2018
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Well-led
Outstanding
rated March 2023

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
1,118
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
59.7%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
15.8 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
11
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
1,0001,5002,000Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 261,1181,478April 20231,521May 20231,567June 20231,620July 20231,773August 20231,984September 20232,007October 20231,898November 20232,018December 20232,169January 20242,106February 20241,794March 20241,698April 20241,761May 20241,893June 20241,784July 20241,591August 20241,540September 20241,301October 20241,243November 20241,368December 20241,361January 20251,426February 20251,304March 20251,228April 20251,192May 20251,329June 20251,148July 20251,091August 20251,038September 20251,096October 20251,068November 20251,011December 20251,313January 20261,347February 20261,170March 20261,179April 20261,118May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%59.7%73.3%April 202373.0%May 202369.4%June 202360.6%July 202354.8%August 202353.8%September 202358.6%October 202358.0%November 202351.3%December 202350.7%January 202454.7%February 202459.7%March 202458.0%April 202457.1%May 202460.0%June 202461.6%July 202460.5%August 202461.4%September 202459.0%October 202461.9%November 202461.7%December 202459.1%January 202558.1%February 202551.7%March 202543.2%April 202537.2%May 202535.6%June 202540.9%July 202542.8%August 202544.1%September 202546.9%October 202549.0%November 202548.2%December 202554.8%January 202658.6%February 202661.4%March 202664.5%April 202659.7%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic99558.2%16.2 wks37.4 wks1000
General Surgery10772.9%10.2 wks33.7 wks100
Other - Surgicals1662.5%10.0 wks38.7 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)
20.3
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 19.3
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)
0.41
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
15.0
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 14.5
Patients
66
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
89.4%
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.