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The Duchy Hospital

Independent hospital

Queens Road, Harrogate, HG2 0HF · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01423567136 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 9 February 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 Duchy 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 2023. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Diagnostic and screening servicesGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2024
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2024
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2024

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
349
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
82.2%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
8.0 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
300400500Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26349286April 2023282May 2023283June 2023320July 2023350August 2023367September 2023378October 2023406November 2023429December 2023434January 2024455February 2024472March 2024438April 2024415May 2024470June 2024513July 2024542August 2024547September 2024528October 2024530November 2024556December 2024548January 2025515February 2025493March 2025477April 2025495May 2025491June 2025433July 2025398August 2025378September 2025340October 2025314November 2025295December 2025286January 2026266February 2026289March 2026323April 2026349May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%70%80%90%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%82.2%64.0%April 202369.5%May 202367.5%June 202371.6%July 202375.4%August 202382.8%September 202383.1%October 202381.8%November 202378.6%December 202373.7%January 202474.5%February 202469.9%March 202473.5%April 202476.1%May 202474.7%June 202478.8%July 202480.1%August 202478.2%September 202475.8%October 202470.8%November 202462.2%December 202464.2%January 202564.7%February 202564.5%March 202565.6%April 202565.7%May 202567.4%June 202569.5%July 202567.6%August 202569.0%September 202574.4%October 202575.8%November 202579.3%December 202580.8%January 202679.7%February 202681.7%March 202682.7%April 202682.2%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic25379.8%9.3 wks27.4 wks000
General Surgery4881.3%7.5 wks22.2 wks000
Urology2295.5%5.0 wks17.2 wks000
Neurology18100.0%2.3 wks3.5 wks000
Neurosurgical6100.0%2.0 wks15.5 wks000
Other - Others250.0%2.0 wks18.8 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
Patients
19
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
94.7%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
17.0
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 17.1
Patients
38
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
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.