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The Royal Marsden Private Care- Cavendish Square

Specialist hospital

19a, London, W1G 0PL · Run by The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Acute hospital - NHS 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
Meets NHS standard
94.1% within 18 weeks · standard 92% · About this data
A&E
No data
No data · About this data
Cancer
Below NHS standard
67.4% treated within 62 days · standard 85% · About this data
Diagnostics
Below NHS standard
2.5% 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 Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust reports that 1,874 patients were on its waiting list in June 2026. During this period, 94.1% of patients were seen within 18 weeks of referral, with a typical wait of 3.7 weeks. Additionally, 91.4% of staff said they would be happy for a friend or relative to be treated there.

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.

Cleaning cost (annual)
£322k
Total cleaning service cost, this site
Single en-suite rooms
0
Private rooms with their own bathroom
Single rooms (non-en-suite)
0
Private rooms without their own bathroom
Site floor area
2,495 m²
Maintenance backlog
£0
£0 high-risk

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

Performance at a glance

Treated or seen within 18 weeks
Trust-wide
94.1%
National median: 66.3%
▼ 0.4 pts vs yr agoBetter than 93% of trustsData: Jun 2026
Typical (median) wait
Trust-wide
3.7 wks
National median: 11.7 wks
▲ 0.1 wks vs yr agoBetter than 98% of trustsData: Jun 2026
Patients on the waiting list
Trust-wide
1,874
National median: 39,587
▼ 91 vs yr agoData: Jun 2026
Waiting over a year
Trust-wide
0
National median: 358.5
▼ 6 vs yr agoBetter than 88% 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 Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust.

Performance over time

Trust-wide (The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust) · hover a month for the exact figure · monthly data table

Total waiting list
Incomplete pathways, all specialties
1,5002,000Apr 21Jan 22Jan 24Jan 25Jan 261,8741,356April 20211,346May 20211,347June 20211,341July 20211,418August 20211,500September 20211,657October 20211,716November 20211,674December 20211,693January 20221,713February 20221,502March 20222,248April 20232,233May 20232,191June 20232,085July 20231,896August 20231,755September 20231,859October 20231,946November 20231,915December 20231,873January 20241,866February 20241,842March 20241,887April 20241,970May 20241,897June 20241,935July 20241,896August 20242,066September 20241,957October 20242,068November 20241,949December 20241,936January 20252,025February 20251,985March 20251,848April 20252,013May 20251,965June 20251,935July 20251,917August 20251,911September 20251,968October 20252,066November 20251,869December 20251,907January 20261,969February 20261,962March 20261,804April 20261,919May 20261,874June 2026
Waiting under 18 weeks
Share of the waiting list
92%94%96%Apr 21Jan 22Jan 24Jan 25Jan 26NHS standard 92%94.1%93.5%April 202194.7%May 202194.8%June 202194.9%July 202193.2%August 202193.9%September 202194.5%October 202194.1%November 202193.4%December 202193.0%January 202292.6%February 202291.6%March 202294.0%April 202394.4%May 202394.2%June 202394.6%July 202394.7%August 202394.7%September 202393.8%October 202394.8%November 202394.1%December 202393.9%January 202494.1%February 202493.4%March 202494.0%April 202494.1%May 202494.6%June 202494.9%July 202494.3%August 202494.3%September 202494.1%October 202494.5%November 202494.2%December 202494.0%January 202593.2%February 202593.2%March 202592.1%April 202594.0%May 202594.5%June 202595.6%July 202594.8%August 202594.0%September 202595.5%October 202595.2%November 202594.4%December 202594.1%January 202694.4%February 202694.7%March 202694.8%April 202694.7%May 202694.1%June 2026

Cancer waiting times

Trust-wide (The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust) · Latest month: June 2026.

Faster diagnosis (28 days)
90.0%
650 of 722 treated in time
Target 75% · meets target
Treatment within 62 days
67.4%
104 of 154 treated in time
Target 85% · below target
Treatment within 31 days
95.5%
966 of 1,012 treated in time
Target 96% · below target
Treated within 62 days
Urgent referral to first treatment
70%80%Apr 25Jan 26NHS standard 85%67.4%71.2%April 202567.5%May 202577.4%June 202568.6%July 202571.9%August 202572.0%September 202571.8%October 202567.8%November 202566.1%December 202571.9%January 202671.4%February 202675.7%March 202677.8%April 202671.9%May 202667.4%June 2026
Faster diagnosis (28 days)
Referral to diagnosis or ruling-out
80%90%Apr 25Jan 26NHS standard 75%90.0%91.8%April 202589.3%May 202589.2%June 202590.2%July 202588.2%August 202587.3%September 202588.5%October 202589.9%November 202588.9%December 202589.8%January 202691.9%February 202693.5%March 202690.3%April 202691.2%May 202690.0%June 2026
Treated within 31 days
Decision to treat to first treatment
95%96%97%Apr 25Jan 26NHS standard 96%95.5%96.3%April 202595.6%May 202596.1%June 202596.4%July 202596.3%August 202596.8%September 202596.7%October 202594.6%November 202595.9%December 202595.2%January 202696.5%February 202696.3%March 202695.3%April 202696.7%May 202695.5%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 Royal Marsden 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
97.4%
Rated care 'good' or 'very good'
% would not recommend
1.9%
Rated care 'poor' or 'very poor'
Responses
582
Number of patients who gave feedback
Response rate
33.2%
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
91.4%
Agreed · 2025 NHS Staff Survey▲ 1.0 pts vs 2024Median English trust: 63.9%
Staff engagement
7.40
out of 10 · 2025
Would recommend as a place to work
76.5%
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 Royal Marsden 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
7
elective ops cancelled on the day, non-clinical reasons
Not rebooked within 28 days
0
the NHS standard is a new date within 28 days
% not rebooked in time
0.0%
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 Royal Marsden 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
85.3%
168 occupied of 197 open
Adult critical care occupancy
62.5%
10 occupied of 16 open
Ambulance handovers over 30 minutes
12.5%
of 8 handovers, winter 2025-26
Ambulance handovers over 60 minutes
0.0%
of 8 handovers, winter 2025-26

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

Patient experience — inpatient care

Trust-wide (The Royal Marsden 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 641 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
55.0%
Share of those sampled who responded
Respondents
641
Of 1,250 sampled
Quality of information while waiting to be admitted
9.1/10
National average: 7.6/10
Better than the national average
Cleanliness of your room or ward
9.6/10
National average: 8.9/10
Better than the national average
Confidence and trust in the doctors
9.7/10
National average: 9.0/10
Better than the national average
Confidence and trust in the nurses
9.4/10
National average: 8.9/10
Better than the national average
Enough nurses on duty
8.6/10
National average: 7.6/10
Better than the national average
Involved in decisions about your care and treatment
8.2/10
National average: 7.2/10
Better than the national average
Given enough privacy when examined or treated
9.7/10
National average: 9.4/10
Better than the national average
Given enough notice about when you would leave hospital
7.9/10
National average: 6.9/10
Better than the national average
Knew what would happen next with your care, before leaving hospital
8.3/10
National average: 6.7/10
Better than the national average

Source: Care Quality Commission — CQC Adult Inpatient Survey. About this data

Patient experience — cancer care

Trust-wide (The Royal Marsden 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 790 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
790
Who took part
Overall rating of care
9.2/10
National average: 8.9/10
Better than the national average
Cancer diagnosis explained understandably
78%
National average: 78%
About the same as the national average
Easy to contact your main contact person
85%
National average: 84%
About the same as the national average
Involved as much as wanted in treatment decisions
82%
National average: 80%
About the same as the national average
Confidence and trust in the team during hospital care
86%
National average: 78%
Better than the national average
Always treated with respect and dignity in hospital
94%
National average: 88%
Better than the national average
Possible side effects explained understandably
75%
National average: 74%
About the same as the national average
Given enough information about signs of cancer returning or spreading
65%
National average: 65%
About the same as the national average
The whole care team worked well together
90%
National average: 89%
About the same as the national average
Got the support needed from your GP practice since diagnosis
41%
National average: 45%
About the same as the national average

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

Diagnostic test waits

Trust-wide (The Royal Marsden 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
2.5%
of 1,086 patients on the diagnostic waiting list
TestWaiting list6+ weeks6+ weeks (count)13+ weeks
Gastroscopy6417.2%110
Colonoscopy6914.5%100
Cardiology902.2%20
Ultrasound1470.7%10
CT scan3530.3%10
DEXA Scan500.0%00
MRI2900.0%00
Waiting 6+ weeks for a diagnostic test
All tests combined
0%1%2%Apr 25Jan 262.5%2.0%April 20251.7%May 20251.6%June 20252.0%July 20250.5%August 20250.2%September 20251.0%October 20252.0%November 20251.9%December 20251.6%January 20261.0%February 20261.2%March 20261.4%April 20262.2%May 20262.5%June 2026

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

Safety: infections

Trust-wide (The Royal Marsden 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. difficile6130
E. coli bacteraemia8044
MSSA bacteraemia115
Klebsiella bacteraemia4720
Pseudomonas bacteraemia4425
Hospital-onset cases per month
All infections combined
5101520Dec 23Jan 25Jan 261811December 202311January 202412February 20248March 202412April 202415May 202413June 20248July 202419August 202417September 202413October 202411November 202411December 202412January 20257February 20257March 20259April 202511May 20256June 202511July 20258August 202510September 202511October 202515November 20259December 20259January 202611February 20269March 20266April 20269May 20269June 202618July 2026

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

Waiting times by specialty

Trust-wide (The Royal Marsden 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 - Surgicals56795.2%1.9 wks14.8 wks000
Other - Medicals47895.8%4.4 wks14.5 wks000
Other - Others35593.0%4.3 wks17.4 wks000
Oral Surgery15291.4%3.8 wks19.2 wks000
General Surgery12390.2%5.3 wks18.7 wks000
Urology7297.2%2.7 wks13.2 wks000
Gastroenterology6190.2%8.1 wks18.6 wks000
Plastic Surgery4989.8%4.9 wks18.5 wks000
Other - Paediatrics1291.7%3.0 wks20.0 wks000
Dermatology3100.0%2.5 wks5.8 wks000
Respiratory Medicine1100.0%3.5 wks3.9 wks000
Other - Mental Healths1100.0%1.5 wks1.9 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.