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The Saxon Clinic

Independent hospital

Saxon Street, Milton Keynes, MK6 5LR · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01908665533 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 27 December 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 Saxon Clinicis 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 September 2019. 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 December 2019
Medical care (including older people's care)Good
Safe
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated December 2019
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated December 2019
Services for children & young peopleGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated December 2019
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated December 2019

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
803
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
46.0%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
19.0 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
13
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
600700800Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26803587April 2023635May 2023646June 2023672July 2023716August 2023693September 2023703October 2023723November 2023737December 2023768January 2024779February 2024747March 2024728April 2024682May 2024667June 2024654July 2024637August 2024620September 2024624October 2024653November 2024689December 2024679January 2025677February 2025684March 2025608April 2025599May 2025594June 2025625July 2025634August 2025668September 2025653October 2025642November 2025690December 2025721January 2026698February 2026688March 2026785April 2026803May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%46.0%60.6%April 202362.2%May 202361.3%June 202361.5%July 202358.5%August 202357.4%September 202352.2%October 202353.0%November 202351.2%December 202352.3%January 202452.4%February 202450.7%March 202450.5%April 202449.4%May 202449.2%June 202446.6%July 202448.7%August 202452.9%September 202454.5%October 202452.7%November 202455.0%December 202461.9%January 202563.2%February 202564.9%March 202568.9%April 202569.3%May 202568.5%June 202567.8%July 202565.8%August 202565.0%September 202561.1%October 202557.3%November 202559.4%December 202557.1%January 202656.9%February 202655.8%March 202650.1%April 202646.0%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic55538.7%20.6 wks44.2 wks1010
General Surgery17961.5%14.4 wks36.8 wks200
Gastroenterology6564.6%13.1 wks47.4 wks100
Other - Others450.0%2.0 wks22.7 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
12
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
Knee replacement
Patients
21
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
90.5%
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.