Updated
11 July 2025
Three Shires Hospital is operated by Three Shires Hospital LLP, part of the Circle Health Group Limited. It offers elective surgical services as well as outpatients and diagnostic imaging. At this inspection we inspected surgical services.
Surgical services operate across a pre-assessment unit, theatres, including 3 with laminar flow facilities, a post-operative recovery unit, 3 inpatient wards with a total of 50 beds, and a physiotherapy rehabilitation service.
The hospital offers services to NHS patients under ‘choose and book’ arrangements, self-funding patients, and patients referred by their insurance provider. Clinical specialties include orthopaedics, gynaecology, general surgery and neurosurgery.
The hospital primarily serves the communities of Northamptonshire and accepts referrals from outside this area. Around 40% of surgical patients are cared for on behalf of the NHS.
We carried out unannounced site assessments on 11 and 18 December 2024. We have not yet inspected this service under Circle Health Group Limited ownership.
We rated this service as outstanding because it was safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well led with several areas of innovation that demonstrably improved patient care and outcomes.
Updated
10 December 2024
Three Shires Hospital is operated by Three Shires Hospital LLP, part of the Circle Health Group Limited. It offers elective surgical services as well as outpatients and diagnostic imaging. At this inspection we inspected surgical services.
Surgical services operate across a pre-assessment unit, theatres, including 3 with laminar flow facilities, a post-operative recovery unit, 3 inpatient wards with a total of 50 beds, and a physiotherapy rehabilitation service.
The hospital offers services to NHS patients under ‘choose and book’ arrangements, self-funding patients, and patients referred by their insurance provider. Clinical specialties include orthopaedics, gynaecology, general surgery and neurosurgery.
The hospital primarily serves the communities of Northamptonshire and accepts referrals from outside this area. Around 40% of surgical patients are cared for on behalf of the NHS.
We carried out unannounced site assessments on 11 and 18 December 2024. We have not yet inspected this service under Circle Health Group Limited ownership.
We rated this service as outstanding because it was safe, effective, caring, responsive, and well led with several areas of innovation that demonstrably improved patient care and outcomes.
Medical care (including older people’s care)
Updated
24 September 2018
Medical care services were a small proportion of hospital activity. The main service was surgery. Where arrangements were the same, we have reported findings in the surgery section.
We rated this service as good because it was safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.
Services for children & young people
Updated
24 September 2018
Children and young people’s services were a small proportion of hospital activity. The main service was surgery. Where arrangements were the same, we have reported findings in the surgery section.
We rated this service as good because it was safe, effective, caring, responsive and well led.
Outpatients and diagnostic imaging
Updated
24 September 2018
Outpatients was a small proportion of hospital activity. The main service was surgery. Where arrangements were the same, we have reported findings in the outpatient’s section.
We rated this service as good because it was safe, caring, responsive and well led. We did not rate the service for being effective.