- Independent hospital
St Hugh's Hospital
Assessment report published 24 March 2026
Contents
Ratings
Our view of the service
St Hugh’s Hospital is operated by The Healthcare Management Trust and serves the population of North-east Lincolnshire and surrounding areas such as Hull, Goole, Yorkshire, Grimsby and further afield. The onsite facilities include one ward consisting of 24 single rooms and one double room, two laminar flow theatres and eight consulting rooms. The hospital’s other clinical departments include a physiotherapy department, a radiology department with ultrasound and x-ray. The hospital provides surgery and outpatients with diagnostic imaging services.
The hospital provides services to privately insured patients, self-funding individuals and NHS patients who exercise choice through the e- referral system. Staff offer care to adults over 18, covering the full pathway from outpatient consultation and diagnostic imaging into surgical treatment and recovery. The hospital’s endoscopy service ceased in June 2025.
The main service provided by this hospital was surgery. Where our findings on surgery, for example, management arrangements, also apply to other services, we do not repeat the information but cross-refer to the surgery service level report.
At our previous inspection in May 2019, the service was rated as Requires Improvement. We carried out our latest unannounced inspection on 9 and 10 December 2025. During this visit, we assessed 33 quality statements across the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led domains to inform the overall rating. Our inspection covered the hospital’s three core services: surgery, outpatients, and diagnostic imaging.
Following our inspection of St Hughs hospital, overall ratings have changed from Requires Improvement to Good. In our assessment of the service, we saw significant improvement in the governance and risk structures of the service. The senior leadership team had oversight of the risk across the organization and had systems in place to monitor them.
The diagnostic service had addressed the concerns highlighted in the previous report. We found they were fully compliant with the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (IR(ME)R). This UK legislation protected people from harmful radiation by setting rules for employers, referrers, practitioners, and operators involved in medical x-rays and scans.