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The London Independent Hospital

Independent hospital

Pathology Department, London, E1 4NL · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 02077802500 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 18 September 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.

The London Independent 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 June 2019. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Critical careGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated September 2019
Medical care (including older people's care)Good
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated November 2016
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated September 2019
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated September 2019

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
4,128
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
81.7%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
7.3 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
8
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
4,0005,0006,000Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 264,1286,249April 20236,207May 20236,330June 20235,963July 20235,843August 20236,237September 20235,871October 20235,727November 20235,668December 20235,419January 20245,129February 20245,177March 20245,435April 20245,238May 20244,875June 20244,991July 20244,912August 20244,945September 20244,625October 20244,501November 20244,376December 20244,288January 20253,985February 20253,870March 20253,792April 20253,642May 20253,744June 20253,819July 20253,844August 20253,570September 20253,538October 20253,787November 20253,988December 20253,916January 20263,864February 20263,735March 20263,991April 20264,128May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%81.7%45.6%April 202346.6%May 202349.4%June 202350.7%July 202350.5%August 202354.6%September 202362.5%October 202363.6%November 202361.7%December 202360.2%January 202461.4%February 202459.7%March 202460.6%April 202460.5%May 202462.2%June 202464.0%July 202461.8%August 202462.1%September 202462.9%October 202465.9%November 202464.8%December 202462.9%January 202557.3%February 202558.4%March 202559.7%April 202560.5%May 202561.8%June 202564.1%July 202570.0%August 202579.2%September 202583.4%October 202583.8%November 202582.8%December 202581.7%January 202679.9%February 202679.6%March 202680.5%April 202681.7%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic2,06381.0%7.3 wks27.1 wks500
General Surgery94683.7%7.2 wks25.0 wks100
Urology58278.9%7.7 wks25.0 wks000
Other - Others20569.3%12.5 wks34.2 wks100
Gastroenterology16895.2%5.7 wks14.5 wks000
Ophthalmology10195.0%4.0 wks14.5 wks000
Gynaecology4182.9%12.8 wks29.7 wks100
Neurosurgical2195.2%2.1 wks3.3 wks000
Rheumatology1100.0%13.5 wks13.9 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
Patients
7
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Patients
23
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
87.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before

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.