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The Robert Jones & Agnes Hunt Hospital

Specialist hospital

RJAH Orthopaedic & District Hospital, Gobowen, SY10 7AG · Run by The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · 01691404358

Acute hospital - NHS specialist

CQC: Good

CQC rating published 15 October 2025 — this rating applies to this specific location. About CQC ratings

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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
65.0% within 18 weeks · standard 92% · About this data
A&E
No data
No data · About this data
Cancer
Below NHS standard
50.0% treated within 62 days · standard 85% · About this data
Diagnostics
Below NHS standard
7.5% waiting 6+ weeks · standard 1.0% or fewer · About this data
Mortality (SHMI)
No data
No data · About this data

In plain English

AI-generated

The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust reported 13,426 patients on its waiting list in June 2026. Of those referred, 65% were seen within 18 weeks, while 196 patients waited over 52 weeks. The median wait for treatment was 12.1 weeks.

Automatically generated from the official figures on this page and checked to restate only those figures. Last generated 17 August 2026. This is a plain-English summary, not medical advice. About these summaries

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 February 2019
Medical care (including older people's care)Good
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Outstanding
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2019
OutpatientsGood
Safe
Good
Caring
Good
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2019
Services for children & young peopleGood
Safe
Good
Effective
Good
Caring
Outstanding
Responsive
Good
Well-led
Good
rated February 2019

Source: CQC. About CQC ratings

Estates & facilities

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

Patient & visitor parking
£1.00/hr
1,170 spaces · 64 disabled
Cost per inpatient meal
£13.17
Cleaning cost (annual)
£1.9m
Total cleaning service cost, this site
Single en-suite rooms
38
Private rooms with their own bathroom
Single rooms (non-en-suite)
19
Private rooms without their own bathroom
Site floor area
38,050 m²
Maintenance backlog
£15.5m
£968k high-risk

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
99.9%
Food & hydration
93.2%
Condition & appearance
98.8%
Privacy & dignity
92.2%
Dementia-friendly
88.0%
Disability-friendly
88.3%

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
65.0%
National median: 66.3%
19.6 pts vs yr agoBetter than 38% of trustsData: Jun 2026
Typical (median) wait
Trust-wide
12.1 wks
National median: 11.7 wks
8.0 wks vs yr agoBetter than 42% of trustsData: Jun 2026
Patients on the waiting list
Trust-wide
13,426
National median: 39,587
3,898 vs yr agoData: Jun 2026
Waiting over a year
Trust-wide
196
National median: 358.5
1,147 vs yr agoBetter than 61% 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 The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

Performance over time

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · hover a month for the exact figure · monthly data table

Total waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
12,00014,00016,00018,000Apr 21Jan 22Jan 24Jan 25Jan 2613,42612,268April 202112,421May 202112,592June 202112,946July 202112,886August 202112,893September 202112,920October 202112,913November 202112,956December 202112,974January 202213,117February 202213,560March 202214,671April 202314,477May 202314,688June 202314,749July 202314,886August 202315,016September 202315,049October 202315,072November 202314,792December 202314,729January 202414,928February 202415,306March 202415,574April 202415,810May 202415,708June 202416,057July 202416,244August 202416,408September 202416,749October 202416,961November 202416,651December 202416,607January 202517,016February 202517,172March 202516,990April 202517,280May 202517,324June 202517,298July 202517,001August 202517,085September 202517,391October 202516,887November 202516,488December 202516,447January 202615,556February 202614,081March 202613,697April 202613,635May 202613,426June 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the waiting list
40%60%80%Apr 21Jan 22Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%65.0%56.7%April 202157.5%May 202158.1%June 202158.4%July 202157.0%August 202155.7%September 202156.0%October 202156.4%November 202155.3%December 202154.2%January 202254.0%February 202252.6%March 202252.4%April 202351.1%May 202350.3%June 202350.6%July 202351.1%August 202350.6%September 202349.5%October 202348.4%November 202345.8%December 202346.5%January 202445.6%February 202447.0%March 202448.2%April 202448.9%May 202448.7%June 202449.3%July 202448.8%August 202447.9%September 202446.4%October 202448.3%November 202446.6%December 202446.2%January 202546.1%February 202546.1%March 202544.9%April 202544.5%May 202545.4%June 202547.7%July 202548.6%August 202552.7%September 202555.7%October 202557.3%November 202555.8%December 202554.9%January 202656.1%February 202662.1%March 202663.6%April 202664.5%May 202665.0%June 2026

A&E performance

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: July 2026· all A&E department types combined — the official headline basis.

A&E attendances
0
All department types · latest month
Waited over 12 hours
0
From decision-to-admit ('trolley waits')
Emergency admissions
35
All department types · latest month

This trust does not run a separate major (Type 1) A&E department — the figures above are for its minor-injury unit(s) or urgent treatment centre(s) — Type 3 in NHS England’s classification.

Source: NHS England A&E Attendances & Emergency Admissions. About this data

Cancer waiting times

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: June 2026.

Faster diagnosis (28 days)
73.9%
34 of 46 treated in time
Target 75% · below target
Treatment within 62 days
50.0%
2 of 4 treated in time
Target 85% · below target
Treatment within 31 days
100.0%
3 of 3 treated in time
Target 96% · meets target
Treated within 62 days
Urgent referral to first treatment
40%60%80%100%Apr 25Jan 26NHS standard 85%50.0%33.3%April 2025100.0%May 2025100.0%June 202575.0%July 202557.1%August 202550.0%September 202577.8%October 202585.7%November 202576.9%December 202533.3%January 202666.7%February 2026100.0%March 202675.0%April 2026100.0%May 202650.0%June 2026
Faster diagnosis (28 days)
Referral to diagnosis or ruling-out
70%80%90%Apr 25Jan 26NHS standard 75%73.9%91.4%April 202590.0%May 202580.0%June 202570.7%July 202579.7%August 202583.7%September 202569.4%October 202570.8%November 202577.6%December 202575.8%January 202678.7%February 202680.8%March 202675.0%April 202681.8%May 202673.9%June 2026
Treated within 31 days
Decision to treat to first treatment
96%98%100%May 25NHS standard 96%100.0%100.0%May 2025100.0%June 2025100.0%July 2025100.0%August 2025100.0%September 2025100.0%October 2025100.0%November 2025100.0%December 2025100.0%February 2026100.0%March 2026100.0%April 2026100.0%May 2026100.0%June 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

Patient experience (Friends & Family Test)

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: June 2026· a voluntary, monthly feedback survey — the figure is the share of respondents who rated their experience 'good' or 'very good'. Response rates are often low and respondents are self-selected, not a representative sample, so read this alongside the clinical measures above, not on its own.

Inpatient care
% would recommend
99.6%
Rated care 'good' or 'very good'
% would not recommend
0.4%
Rated care 'poor' or 'very poor'
Responses
239
Number of patients who gave feedback
Response rate
100.0%
Responses as a share of those eligible

Source: NHS England Friends & Family Test. 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
91.6%
Agreed · 2025 NHS Staff Survey▼ 0.1 pts vs 2024Median English trust: 63.9%
Staff engagement
7.04
out of 10 · 2025
Would recommend as a place to work
69.2%
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

Cancelled operations

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · Quarter ending 30 June 2026· last-minute cancellations for NON-CLINICAL reasons (no bed, no staff, an emergency taking priority) — not cancellations chosen by the patient or on clinical grounds. It's a raw count, so larger trusts naturally cancel more in absolute terms — read this alongside the other measures above, not on its own.

Last-minute cancellations
43
elective ops cancelled on the day, non-clinical reasons
Not rebooked within 28 days
8
the NHS standard is a new date within 28 days
% not rebooked in time
18.6%
share of cancelled ops without a new date inside 28 days

Source: NHS England (QMCO). About this data

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

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital 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.

Adult general & acute bed occupancy
89.1%
115 occupied of 129 open
Adult critical care occupancy
0.0%
0 occupied of 4 open

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

Never Events (patient safety)

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital 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
2
Occurring in FY 2025/26 · not a comparative safety score

Source: NHS England. About this data

Patient experience — inpatient care

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · CQC Adult Inpatient Survey, 2024 · scores are 0-10, and "better"/"worse" means the trust's score falls outside the range expected for a trust of its size (the CQC 95% expected range, centred on the national average) — a statistical-significance test, not a raw ranking. Based on 863 voluntary respondents (a question is only shown here where at least 30 people at this trust answered it). England only; response rates vary between trusts.

Response rate
70.0%
Share of those sampled who responded
Respondents
863
Of 1,250 sampled
Quality of information while waiting to be admitted
8.1/10
National average: 7.6/10
About the same as the national average
Cleanliness of your room or ward
9.9/10
National average: 8.9/10
Better than the national average
Confidence and trust in the doctors
9.8/10
National average: 9.0/10
Better than the national average
Confidence and trust in the nurses
9.7/10
National average: 8.9/10
Better than the national average
Enough nurses on duty
9.1/10
National average: 7.6/10
Better than the national average
Involved in decisions about your care and treatment
8.5/10
National average: 7.2/10
Better than the national average
Given enough privacy when examined or treated
9.9/10
National average: 9.4/10
Better than the national average
Given enough notice about when you would leave hospital
8.2/10
National average: 6.9/10
Better than the national average
Knew what would happen next with your care, before leaving hospital
8.1/10
National average: 6.7/10
Better than the national average

Source: Care Quality CommissionCQC Adult Inpatient Survey. About this data

Patient experience — cancer care

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · National Cancer Patient Experience Survey, 2025 · scores are the % of patients giving the most positive answer (and an overall 0–10 rating), and "better"/"worse" means the trust's score falls outside the range expected for a trust of its size (the survey's 95% expected range, centred on the national average) — a statistical-significance test, not a raw ranking. Based on 9 patients treated for cancer by this trust (a question is only shown here where at least 10 people at this trust answered it). England only; response rates vary between trusts.

Response rate
Share of those sampled who responded
Respondents
9
Who took part

Source: NHS England (survey run by Picker on its behalf)National Cancer Patient Experience Survey. About this data

Hip & knee replacement — patient outcomes (PROMs)

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · 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)
24.2
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 26.2
Patients
321
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
99.4%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.48
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale
Knee replacement
Average health gain (adjusted)
18.9
Oxford Score, case-mix-adjusted, 0-48 scale
Raw gain (unadjusted): 19.3
Patients
387
Modelled records — completed the questionnaire before & after
% who improved
97.9%
Oxford Score higher after surgery than before
EQ-5D Index gain (adjusted)
0.36
General health, secondary measure, 0-1 scale

Source: NHS England PROMs (hip & knee replacement). About this data

Diagnostic test waits

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: June 2026. The operational standard is that under 1% should wait more than 6 weeks.

Waiting 6+ weeks for a test
7.5%
of 1,393 patients on the diagnostic waiting list
TestWaiting list6+ weeks6+ weeks (count)13+ weeks
MRI89410.9%974
CT scan1472.7%40
Ultrasound3440.9%30
Waiting 6+ weeks for a diagnostic test
All tests combined
5%10%15%Apr 25Jan 267.5%13.8%April 202511.1%May 20259.2%June 20258.0%July 202513.7%August 202510.8%September 20255.3%October 20254.1%November 202511.3%December 202514.2%January 20266.4%February 20263.3%March 20267.2%April 20264.4%May 20267.5%June 2026

Source: NHS England Diagnostic Waiting Times & Activity (DM01). About this data

Safety: infections

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · Cases in the 12 months to July 2026. Hospital-onset cases are those most likely acquired in hospital.

InfectionCases (12 mo)Hospital-onset
MRSA bacteraemia00
C. difficile11
E. coli bacteraemia43
MSSA bacteraemia32
Klebsiella bacteraemia32
Pseudomonas bacteraemia00
Hospital-onset cases per month
All infections combined
024Dec 23Jan 25Jan 2603December 20231January 20241February 20244March 20241April 20240May 20241June 20243July 20241August 20240September 20244October 20243November 20240December 20241January 20250February 20250March 20250April 20250May 20250June 20250July 20252August 20250September 20250October 20251November 20251December 20251January 20260February 20261March 20262April 20260May 20260June 20260July 2026

Source: UK Health Security Agency mandatory surveillance. About this data

Waiting times by specialty

Trust-wide (The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust) · Data: June 2026 · Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment statistics

SpecialtyWaitingWithin 18 wksMedian wait9 in 10 wait under52+ wks65+ wks78+ wks
Trauma and Orthopaedic8,82352.1%17.1 wks43.5 wks175192
General Internal Medicine2,79292.3%7.9 wks17.8 wks1200
Rheumatology62294.4%6.8 wks16.3 wks000
Other - Medicals54786.5%8.3 wks23.4 wks600
Other - Paediatrics32973.9%10.9 wks29.3 wks111
Other - Others23285.3%5.5 wks28.7 wks100
Neurology5048.0%18.3 wks42.0 wks100
Elderly Medicine3196.8%6.4 wks10.8 wks000

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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.