The Priory Hospital

Ratings

• Overall

  Requires improvement

• Safe

  Good

• Effective

  Requires improvement

• Caring

  Good

• Responsive

  Good

• Well-led

  Requires improvement

Our view of the service

The Priory Hospital is operated by Circle Health Group Limited. The hospital provides a range of services which include medicine, surgery, critical care outpatients and diagnostic imaging. The hospital has 65 inpatient beds across Dudley, Aston, ITU and Highbury wards. Facilities include 5 operating theatres, a 6-bedded level 3 intensive treatment unit, a minor operations room, a dedicated oncology centre, cardiac catheterisation lab, and X-ray, outpatient, and diagnostic facilities. The hospital saw both private and NHS patients.

We previously inspected this location using our comprehensive inspection methodology in May and July 2019. We rated them as requires improvement. We conducted a risk-based unannounced on-site assessment of outpatients and surgical services on the 28 and 29 January 2025. We assessed against safe, effective, caring, responding and well-led key questions. We found surgery and outpatients had both improved and were now rated good. However, the overall location rating remained as requires improvement. The location rating remained as requires improvement due to only 2 out of 5 assessment service groups (ASGs) being reviewed during our visit. The historic ratings for the remaining 3 ASGs have been included to form our judgement during this assessment.