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CPFT at Princess of Wales Hospital

Lynn Road, Ely, CB6 1DN · Run by Cambridgeshire And Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Acute hospital - NHS non-specialist

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Contains public sector information from the Care Quality Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

At a glance

Whether this trust meets each official NHS operational standard — not a combined score or ranking.

Waiting times
Below NHS standard
31.0% within 18 weeks · standard 92% · About this data
A&E
No data
No data · About this data
Cancer
Meets NHS standard
100.0% treated within 62 days · standard 85% · About this data
Diagnostics
No data
No data · About this data
Mortality (SHMI)
No data
No data · About this data

In plain English

AI-generated

Cambridgeshire And Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust reported 84 patients on its waiting list in June 2026. The median wait for treatment was 32.5 weeks, with 31% of patients seen within 18 weeks of referral. Additionally, 62.6% of staff would recommend the trust for treatment in the 2025 NHS Staff Survey.

Automatically generated from the official figures on this page and checked to restate only those figures. Last generated 18 August 2026. This is a plain-English summary, not medical advice. About these summaries

Estates & facilities

This hospital site specifically (2024/25). A high maintenance backlog means more deferred repairs to buildings and equipment.

Cost per inpatient meal
£9.98
Single en-suite rooms
0
Private rooms with their own bathroom
Single rooms (non-en-suite)
2
Private rooms without their own bathroom
Site floor area
2,340 m²

Source: NHS England Estates Returns Information Collection (ERIC). About this data

Cleanliness & environment

This hospital site specifically (2025). Patient-assessed scores — higher is better.

Cleanliness
99.6%
Food & hydration
95.5%
Condition & appearance
97.8%
Privacy & dignity
71.1%
Dementia-friendly
70.8%
Disability-friendly
71.0%

Source: NHS England Patient-Led Assessments of the Care Environment (PLACE), scored by teams including patient assessors. About this data

Performance at a glance

Treated or seen within 18 weeks
Trust-wide
31.0%
National median: 66.3%
19.5 pts vs yr agoBetter than 0% of trustsData: Jun 2026
Typical (median) wait
Trust-wide
32.5 wks
National median: 11.7 wks
14.7 wks vs yr agoBetter than 0% of trustsData: Jun 2026
Patients on the waiting list
Trust-wide
84
National median: 39,587
249 vs yr agoData: Jun 2026
Waiting over a year
Trust-wide
7
National median: 358.5
66 vs yr agoBetter than 84% of trustsData: Jun 2026

NHS England publishes waiting-time and A&E figures per trust, not per building — figures marked Trust-wide cover all hospitals run by Cambridgeshire And Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust.

Performance over time

Trust-wide (Cambridgeshire And Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust) · hover a month for the exact figure · monthly data table

Total waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
0100200300Apr 21Jan 22Jan 24Jan 25Jan 268417April 202124May 202125June 202129July 202132August 202132September 202138October 202136November 202138December 202135January 202210February 202244March 202289April 2023110May 2023126June 2023133July 2023140August 2023187September 2023230October 2023273November 2023286December 2023323January 2024346February 2024343March 2024352April 2024321May 2024325June 2024319July 2024314August 2024319September 2024322October 2024311November 2024313December 2024338January 2025315February 2025324March 2025339April 2025316May 2025333June 2025336July 2025335August 202513September 2025275October 2025295November 2025301December 2025320January 2026275February 2026196March 2026153April 202685May 202684June 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the waiting list
25%50%75%100%Apr 21Jan 22Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%31.0%82.4%April 202195.8%May 202192.0%June 202189.7%July 202193.8%August 202190.6%September 202184.2%October 202191.7%November 202184.2%December 202188.6%January 202290.0%February 202281.8%March 202270.8%April 202374.5%May 202366.7%June 202354.1%July 202355.7%August 202356.7%September 202361.3%October 202368.9%November 202369.2%December 202366.9%January 202459.2%February 202449.0%March 202446.9%April 202439.6%May 202436.6%June 202432.3%July 202429.9%August 202430.1%September 202432.6%October 202434.1%November 202434.2%December 202436.1%January 202536.8%February 202543.2%March 202552.2%April 202546.8%May 202550.5%June 202547.9%July 202540.3%August 202515.4%September 202547.3%October 202545.1%November 202543.5%December 202537.5%January 202638.2%February 202637.2%March 202639.9%April 202625.9%May 202631.0%June 2026

Cancer waiting times

Trust-wide (Cambridgeshire And Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: April 2026.

Treatment within 62 days
100.0%
1 of 1 treated in time
Target 85% · meets target
Treatment within 31 days
100.0%
1 of 1 treated in time
Target 96% · meets target
Treated within 62 days
Urgent referral to first treatment
85%90%95%100%Sept 25NHS standard 85%100.0%100.0%September 2025100.0%April 2026
Treated within 31 days
Decision to treat to first treatment
96%98%100%Sept 25NHS standard 96%100.0%100.0%September 2025100.0%April 2026

Source: NHS England Cancer Waiting Times. The 62-day standard is urgent referral to first treatment; the 28-day faster-diagnosis standard is referral to diagnosis or ruling-out. About this data

Staff experience (NHS Staff Survey)

2025 · the views of staff who work at this trust — a measure of workforce culture, morale and confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes. There is no official NHS target for these figures, so they are shown as context, never a pass or fail.

Staff happy for a friend or relative to be treated here
62.6%
Agreed · 2025 NHS Staff Survey▼ 2.9 pts vs 2024Median English trust: 63.9%
Staff engagement
6.88
out of 10 · 2025
Would recommend as a place to work
55.4%
Agreed · 2025

The NHS Staff Survey records the views of staff who chose to respond — a measure of workforce culture, morale and staff confidence, not a direct measure of clinical outcomes or safety. Response rates vary between trusts. England only; Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run separate staff surveys on a different basis, so these figures are never compared across nations.

Source: NHS Staff Survey (NHS England), Open Government Licence. About this data

Bed occupancy, ambulance handovers & delayed discharges (UEC Daily SitRep)

Trust-wide (Cambridgeshire And Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust) · Snapshot at 8am, 29 March 2026. This is unvalidated management information— NHS England's own label — and can be revised for up to 14 days after first publication. It is collected only during the winter Daily SitRep window, so this is the latest date the collection has published, not necessarily today. It measures operational pressure (how full the hospital is), NOT care quality — high occupancy is normal for NHS hospitals, especially in winter, and is not a safety or performance score. The ambulance-handover figures below cover winter 2025-26 as a period total(not a snapshot): the time from an ambulance arriving to the patient being handed over to A&E staff. The delayed-discharge figures cover the most recent 7 daysof the collection (not a snapshot, and not the whole winter): a patient who "no longer meets the criteria to reside" is medically ready to leave hospital, but how quickly they actually do mostly reflects social-care and community capacity to receive them — NOT the hospital's own clinical quality. A higher handover or delayed-discharge figure means more operational pressure — like the rest of this section, none of it is a measure of care quality, and it carries no colour grading, badge or ranking.

Ambulance handovers over 30 minutes
60.0%
of 10 handovers, winter 2025-26
Ambulance handovers over 60 minutes
10.0%
of 10 handovers, winter 2025-26

Source: NHS England UEC Daily SitRep, Ambulance Handover and Acute Discharge SitRep collections. About this data

Never Events (patient safety)

Trust-wide (Cambridgeshire And Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust) · Financial year 2025/26 · Never Events are rare, serious, wholly-preventable incidents. This is a RAW count for 2025/26— it is NOT adjusted for how much surgery the trust does, and NHS England publishes it to prompt learning, NOT to compare trusts. A higher number is a prompt to look at the trust's own review, not proof it is less safe than a trust with fewer.

Never Events reported
1
Occurring in FY 2025/26 · not a comparative safety score

Source: NHS England. About this data

Waiting times by specialty

Trust-wide (Cambridgeshire And Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust) · Data: June 2026 · Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Other - Others8431.0%32.5 wks52.3 wks700

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About this data

Every figure on this page comes from an official publication: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics, NHS England A&E statistics, and the Care Quality Commission directory. Data periods are shown against each figure — NHS England publishes with a lag of around six weeks. Read the full methodology.