Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Good

• Safe

  Good

• Effective

  Good

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Good

Our view of the service

Nuffield Health Hereford Hospital is operated by Nuffield Health. The hospital has 20 inpatient beds. Facilities included 2 operating theatres, an outpatient department and diagnostic facilities. The hospital provides surgery, medical care and services for adults over the age of 18. Patients treated at the location include private and NHS patients. We conducted a planned unannounced on-site assessment of surgery services on the 3 and 10 March 2026.

We followed the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Single Assessment Framework (SAF) and assessed against the safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led key questions. The overall rating for this hospital was good at the last inspection in 2016.

As part of our assessment, we looked at 10 patient records, spoke with 3 patients, 1 relative and 10 members of staff including the theatre manager, director of clinical services, ward manager, scrub nurses, anaesthetists, consultants, healthcare assistants, a recovery nurse, pre-operative assessment lead and staff nurses.

The overall rating of this service remains good following this assessment, and we did not identify any breach in regulation.