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The Beardwood Hospital

Independent hospital

Preston New Road, Blackburn, BB2 7AE · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01254507607 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 3 February 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.

The Beardwood 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.

Outpatients and diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated May 2017

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
2,120
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
73.6%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
10.7 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
2,0002,500Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 262,1202,113April 20232,084May 20232,202June 20232,137July 20232,129August 20232,021September 20231,941October 20232,099November 20232,137December 20232,226January 20242,151February 20242,173March 20242,097April 20242,142May 20242,159June 20242,283July 20242,457August 20242,554September 20242,623October 20242,623November 20242,717December 20242,768January 20252,728February 20252,796March 20252,621April 20252,532May 20252,495June 20252,372July 20252,368August 20252,404September 20252,186October 20252,159November 20252,257December 20252,415January 20262,305February 20262,362March 20262,233April 20262,120May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
70%80%90%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%73.6%70.8%April 202373.8%May 202375.5%June 202381.1%July 202380.6%August 202387.9%September 202390.0%October 202388.8%November 202385.4%December 202384.7%January 202481.6%February 202480.1%March 202487.6%April 202486.8%May 202485.9%June 202485.3%July 202483.2%August 202481.7%September 202481.4%October 202480.7%November 202478.5%December 202476.2%January 202573.4%February 202573.7%March 202576.0%April 202576.5%May 202578.4%June 202582.5%July 202582.1%August 202579.7%September 202582.8%October 202580.4%November 202579.3%December 202578.4%January 202677.0%February 202673.6%March 202674.9%April 202673.6%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic1,36374.7%9.4 wks30.3 wks000
General Surgery24871.4%12.6 wks29.8 wks000
Gynaecology16947.9%18.9 wks36.2 wks000
Urology15079.3%7.2 wks28.4 wks000
Ear Nose and Throat10988.1%7.5 wks19.8 wks000
Neurosurgical6786.6%10.8 wks25.5 wks000
Other - Others1485.7%3.0 wks30.9 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)
22.5
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 24.2
Patients
44
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
97.7%
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)
16.0
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 17.2
Patients
61
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
98.4%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.29
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.