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The Priory Hospital

Independent hospital

Priory Road, Birmingham, B5 7UG · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01214402323 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 12 January 2026 — 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 Priory 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.

Critical careGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Requires improvement
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated January 2020
Diagnostic imagingRequires improvement
Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated January 2020
Outpatients and diagnostic imagingRequires improvement
Safe
Inadequate
Caring
Good
Responsive
Requires improvement
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated January 2017

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
569
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
75.6%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
7.2 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
5001,0001,500Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 265691,621April 20231,599May 20231,720June 20231,792July 20231,769August 20231,793September 20231,783October 20231,706November 20231,641December 20231,529January 20241,537February 20241,489March 20241,370April 20241,365May 20241,319June 20241,197July 20241,159August 20241,094September 2024939October 2024995November 2024974December 2024993January 2025984February 2025961March 2025872April 2025793May 2025698June 2025595July 2025552August 2025484September 2025438October 2025423November 2025364December 2025503January 2026614February 2026669March 2026625April 2026569May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
70%80%90%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%75.6%63.7%April 202365.9%May 202369.9%June 202372.5%July 202372.3%August 202373.6%September 202371.1%October 202369.9%November 202368.7%December 202368.3%January 202467.9%February 202467.6%March 202470.5%April 202472.5%May 202468.2%June 202468.8%July 202472.7%August 202476.3%September 202475.8%October 202480.4%November 202481.2%December 202480.5%January 202577.9%February 202579.9%March 202579.0%April 202578.8%May 202577.5%June 202580.5%July 202581.7%August 202583.5%September 202587.0%October 202586.1%November 202583.8%December 202580.5%January 202675.6%February 202670.4%March 202672.8%April 202675.6%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic56875.7%7.2 wks27.8 wks000
Gynaecology10.0%34.5 wks34.9 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
16
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
87.5%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
18.5
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 18.9
Patients
40
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
95.0%
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.