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The Shelburne Hospital

Independent hospital

Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, HP11 2TR · Run by Circle Health Group Limited · 01494888700 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Requires improvement

CQC rating published 24 April 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 Shelburne 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
Requires improvement

The Care Quality Commission rates hospitals on five questions. This location was last inspected January 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 imagingRequires improvement
Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated April 2019
OutpatientsRequires improvement
Safe
Requires improvement
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated April 2019
SurgeryGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated April 2019

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
136
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
71.3%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
14.3 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
0
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
0200400600Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 2613637April 202336May 202335June 202341July 202340August 202358September 202352October 202364November 202383December 202389January 2024100February 2024103March 2024115April 2024175May 2024164June 2024183July 2024204August 2024185September 2024195October 2024191November 2024689December 2024167January 2025166February 2025176March 2025162April 2025150May 2025150June 2025160July 2025161August 2025192September 2025168October 2025177November 2025181December 2025199January 2026189February 2026180March 2026149April 2026136May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%71.3%64.9%April 202377.8%May 202377.1%June 202370.7%July 202370.0%August 202379.3%September 202386.5%October 202382.8%November 202383.1%December 202383.1%January 202484.0%February 202484.5%March 202473.9%April 202458.9%May 202448.8%June 202443.2%July 202445.1%August 202438.4%September 202448.2%October 202451.3%November 202455.0%December 202463.5%January 202562.7%February 202565.3%March 202559.3%April 202566.7%May 202573.3%June 202570.6%July 202567.1%August 202568.8%September 202579.2%October 202583.6%November 202581.8%December 202578.4%January 202681.5%February 202671.1%March 202671.8%April 202671.3%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Other - Others6669.7%16.0 wks24.4 wks000
Trauma and Orthopaedic4864.6%14.5 wks29.8 wks000
Urology1586.7%9.5 wks23.4 wks000
General Surgery7100.0%8.5 wks17.4 wks000

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics, filtered to this hospital's own NHS provider code. 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.