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West Midlands Hospital

Independent hospital

Colman Hill, Halesowen, B63 2AH · Run by Ramsay Health Care UK Operations Limited · 01384560123 · Website

Acute hospital - Independent non-specialist

CQC: Requires improvement

CQC rating published 5 July 2022 — 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.

West Midlands 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 April 2022. Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

CQC ratings by service

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

Outpatients and diagnostic imagingGood
Safe
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated August 2018
SurgeryRequires improvement
Safe
Requires improvement
Effective
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Requires improvement
rated July 2022

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

NHS-funded activity

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

NHS-funded waiting list
574
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
Waiting under 18 weeks
69.3%
NHS standard: 92%
Median wait
12.0 wks
Incomplete pathways
Waiting over 52 weeks
7
NHS-funded patients
NHS-funded waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
5007501,000Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26574852April 2023891May 2023880June 2023959July 2023868August 2023960September 2023979October 2023991November 2023990December 2023955January 2024930February 2024957March 2024982April 2024945May 20241,013June 20241,094July 20241,084August 20241,074September 20241,118October 20241,057November 20241,090December 20241,080January 2025970February 2025899March 2025976April 2025807May 2025834June 2025852July 2025800August 2025639September 2025504October 2025412November 2025512December 2025508January 2026479February 2026439March 2026497April 2026574May 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the NHS-funded waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 23Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%69.3%56.0%April 202356.3%May 202358.9%June 202356.3%July 202358.6%August 202361.7%September 202362.1%October 202360.7%November 202357.5%December 202355.2%January 202453.2%February 202452.2%March 202454.6%April 202454.8%May 202454.2%June 202451.6%July 202450.1%August 202453.5%September 202452.7%October 202449.0%November 202447.2%December 202449.6%January 202548.0%February 202554.1%March 202555.2%April 202554.0%May 202553.0%June 202552.5%July 202552.5%August 202543.0%September 202537.3%October 202536.2%November 202550.8%December 202558.7%January 202658.7%February 202664.7%March 202665.2%April 202669.3%May 2026

NHS-funded waiting times by specialty

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic44970.6%11.7 wks33.2 wks500
Gynaecology5667.9%13.0 wks29.8 wks100
General Surgery2378.3%8.5 wks22.2 wks000
Urology2171.4%12.2 wks44.3 wks000
Other - Medicals2045.0%19.3 wks42.4 wks100
Other - Others520.0%29.5 wks34.8 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
Average health gain (adjusted)
23.6
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 22.3
Patients
38
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
100.0%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.49
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
15.4
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 14.7
Patients
47
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
93.6%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.34
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.