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St Edmunds Hospital

Independent hospital

St Mary's Square, Bury St Edmunds, IP33 2AA · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01284701371 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 1 March 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.

St Edmunds 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 November 2018. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

CQC rated these services individually — there is no single overall rating for this location.

OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated March 2019
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated March 2019

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
513
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
54.4%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
15.3 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
1
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
400600800Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26513583April 2023551May 2023475June 2023438July 2023349August 2023287September 2023345October 2023424November 2023460December 2023495January 2024646February 2024681March 2024677April 2024654May 2024610June 2024610July 2024626August 2024604September 2024642October 2024694November 2024756December 2024631January 2025606February 2025624March 2025637April 2025673May 2025652June 2025668July 2025684August 2025632September 2025623October 2025583November 2025599December 2025571January 2026579February 2026545March 2026521April 2026513May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%54.4%38.9%April 202335.9%May 202337.9%June 202340.4%July 202334.4%August 202359.2%September 202370.7%October 202377.4%November 202378.5%December 202382.6%January 202481.6%February 202471.7%March 202466.9%April 202458.6%May 202452.1%June 202457.2%July 202461.7%August 202460.6%September 202465.3%October 202463.8%November 202462.8%December 202460.2%January 202564.7%February 202567.3%March 202563.9%April 202561.4%May 202559.2%June 202558.7%July 202558.2%August 202557.8%September 202559.7%October 202565.9%November 202569.1%December 202561.8%January 202653.2%February 202648.6%March 202651.6%April 202654.4%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic33645.8%21.3 wks39.0 wks100
General Surgery7382.2%9.8 wks23.2 wks000
Urology5556.4%16.3 wks35.5 wks000
Gastroenterology2673.1%5.8 wks30.0 wks000
Ophthalmology2268.2%13.0 wks28.2 wks000
Other - Others10.0%25.5 wks25.9 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)
24.4
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 26.3
Patients
83
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.50
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
17.4
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 18.5
Patients
73
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
93.2%
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.