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The Cherwell Hospital

Independent hospital

Oxford Road, Banbury, OX16 9FG · Run by Ramsay Health Care UK Operations Limited · 01295755000 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 16 October 2024 — 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 Cherwell 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 March 2017

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
2,092
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
68.4%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
11.6 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
4
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
1,5002,0002,500Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 262,0922,056April 20232,033May 20231,903June 20231,525July 20231,506August 20231,526September 20231,566October 20231,534November 20231,567December 20231,565January 20241,511February 20241,558March 20241,726April 20241,790May 20241,991June 20242,134July 20242,260August 20242,319September 20242,449October 20242,480November 20242,629December 20242,592January 20252,482February 20252,448March 20252,403April 20252,319May 20252,284June 20252,171July 20252,176August 20252,164September 20252,217October 20252,243November 20252,190December 20252,132January 20262,031February 20262,059March 20262,034April 20262,092May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%68.4%43.9%April 202347.8%May 202349.6%June 202362.8%July 202366.5%August 202368.8%September 202367.0%October 202365.5%November 202361.4%December 202364.1%January 202467.8%February 202465.7%March 202467.2%April 202468.4%May 202470.3%June 202474.4%July 202472.0%August 202472.1%September 202468.2%October 202466.0%November 202461.6%December 202458.1%January 202557.5%February 202556.7%March 202555.0%April 202559.8%May 202562.0%June 202564.0%July 202565.0%August 202564.7%September 202563.3%October 202564.2%November 202562.7%December 202565.9%January 202665.1%February 202665.1%March 202668.5%April 202668.4%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic2,09068.5%11.6 wks32.5 wks441
Ophthalmology10.0%21.5 wks21.9 wks000
Other - Others10.0%30.5 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)
23.8
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 24.3
Patients
153
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
99.3%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.49
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): 15.3
Patients
99
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
94.9%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.37
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.