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The Harbour Hospital

Independent hospital

St Marys Road, Poole, BH15 2BH · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01202244200 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 7 February 2022 — 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 Harbour 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
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good

The Care Quality Commission rates hospitals on five questions. This location was last inspected November 2021. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2022
Medical care (including older people's care)Good
Safe
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2022
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2022
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2022

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
167
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
66.5%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
13.3 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
100150200Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 2616781April 202394May 2023106June 2023108July 2023124August 2023136September 2023132October 2023118November 2023134December 2023111January 2024102February 2024119March 2024114April 2024117May 2024132June 2024151July 2024160August 2024149September 2024162October 2024147November 2024150December 2024136January 2025160February 2025170March 2025157April 2025145May 2025143June 2025146July 2025130August 2025113September 2025122October 2025132November 2025155December 2025147January 2026182February 2026194March 2026189April 2026167May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%66.5%71.6%April 202381.9%May 202384.9%June 202380.6%July 202380.6%August 202388.2%September 202381.8%October 202382.2%November 202378.4%December 202379.3%January 202474.5%February 202471.4%March 202469.3%April 202465.8%May 202472.0%June 202473.5%July 202473.8%August 202471.8%September 202466.7%October 202464.6%November 202458.7%December 202469.9%January 202576.9%February 202585.3%March 202583.4%April 202586.2%May 202579.7%June 202571.2%July 202568.5%August 202566.4%September 202584.4%October 202583.3%November 202585.8%December 202584.4%January 202683.0%February 202669.1%March 202667.7%April 202666.5%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic16265.4%13.8 wks29.5 wks000
Other - Others5100.0%8.5 wks11.6 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
22
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
16.7
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 16.8
Patients
31
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
93.5%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.32
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.