Private / independent hospitals (CQC)
Published by Care Quality Commission · Official source
Update schedule
- Monthly directory file for the overall rating; the domain, service-level and report-link detail is polled weekly from the CQC Syndication API and changes as inspections publish — the same feed used for NHS hospital pages.
Level of detail
- Independent hospital (CQC location)
What we show
- Latest overall rating: Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, or Inadequate
- The five key-question ratings (safe, effective, caring, responsive, well-led), from the CQC Syndication API
- Rating publication date and last inspection date
- A link to the location's full CQC report and inspection history on cqc.org.uk
- Per-service ratings (e.g. surgery, outpatients, termination of pregnancy) for locations CQC rates by service rather than with one overall
- Location address, contact details, provider (group) name and inspection category
Caveats
- Independent (private-sector) hospitals are regulated by the Care Quality Commission and shown in their own section, separately from NHS hospitals — the CQC rates both sectors on the same five inspection questions, but they operate on different bases (funding, activity mix, patient population) and are NEVER ranked or compared against NHS hospitals anywhere on this site.
- A CQC rating is the regulator's own judgement of a location at the time of inspection, not a comparative score or a review — it is shown with no league table, badge tier, or numeric ranking, exactly as on NHS hospital pages.
- We show CQC regulatory data only. Private-pay activity volumes, fees, waiting times, PROMs and safety outcomes for independent providers are not published under an open licence — that data is held by the Private Healthcare Information Network (PHIN) under closed terms, so it is not shown here.
- Only independent hospitals that currently hold a CQC rating are published; a location CQC has not yet rated does not have a page on this site.
- England only — CQC regulates independent healthcare in England. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland regulate independent hospitals separately (Healthcare Improvement Scotland, Healthcare Inspectorate Wales, RQIA), which are out of scope here.
- Some locations are not yet rated ('Not yet rated') and are excluded; some are rated only per-service (no single location-wide overall) — the same nuance as the NHS CQC methodology page.
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