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The Princess Margaret Hospital

Independent hospital

Osborne Road, Windsor, SL4 3SJ · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01753743434 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 3 May 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 Princess Margaret 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 2018. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Medical care (including older people's care)Good
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated December 2016
Outpatients and diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated December 2016
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated May 2019

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
49
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
85.7%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
4.9 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
50100Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 264966April 202382May 202395June 2023117July 202398August 2023104September 2023135October 2023118November 2023118December 202388January 202489February 202478March 202484April 202488May 2024101June 2024117July 2024119August 2024123September 2024129October 2024128November 2024131December 2024109January 2025119February 2025104March 2025100April 2025109May 202594June 202580July 202567August 202579September 202580October 202575November 202573December 202570January 202689February 202671March 202664April 202649May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
80%90%100%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%85.7%93.9%April 202395.1%May 202397.9%June 202394.0%July 202393.9%August 202389.4%September 202391.9%October 202392.4%November 202390.7%December 202390.9%January 202495.5%February 202489.7%March 202488.1%April 202492.0%May 202491.1%June 202487.2%July 202484.9%August 202482.1%September 202478.3%October 202475.0%November 202474.8%December 202473.4%January 202574.8%February 202578.8%March 202581.0%April 202587.2%May 202594.7%June 202596.3%July 202597.0%August 202593.7%September 202593.8%October 202592.0%November 202589.0%December 202594.3%January 202696.6%February 202693.0%March 202689.1%April 202685.7%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic3580.0%8.6 wks23.2 wks000
Gastroenterology11100.0%1.8 wks9.1 wks000
Other - Others3100.0%3.3 wks3.9 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
4
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Patients
10
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
90.0%
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.