Practice Plus Group Hospital - Barlborough

Updated 12 June 2026

Practice Plus Group – Barlborough was originally known as Barlborough NHS Treatment Centre and was rebranded in October 2020 when it became part of Practice Plus Group.

The location provides surgical, diagnostic imaging and outpatient services. Its main surgical specialties are orthopaedics, spinal surgery, ophthalmology and general surgery. The service has a 36-bed ward and 6 day case beds. It has 4 operating theatres, including 3 laminar flow theatres. A laminar flow theatre is an operating theatre designed to keep the air as clean as possible during surgery.

The outpatient department includes 7 consulting rooms, 1 treatment room and an ophthalmic outpatient suite with 3 additional rooms. The service also delivered nurse-led pre-assessment clinics for patients undergoing surgery, including those who had been seen elsewhere or required updated assessments. In addition, regular dressing clinics were provided on weekdays to support post-operative care, including wound reviews and suture or clip removal.

The service provides care for a mix of NHS funded and privately funded patients. It primarily supports people living in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. The service also supports a local NHS trust with waiting list management.

We carried out a comprehensive inspection of surgical and outpatient services at this location, which included an unannounced visit on 16 and 17 February 2026. The purpose of this inspection was to review the quality of care provided due to the length of time since the last inspection which was in 17-19 March 2015.

Our detailed findings for each key question can be found in the relevant sections of this report. Surgical and outpatient services were part of the services provided at this location. At this inspection, the overall rating for both services for the location remained unchanged. We rated the location as good overall, with outstanding for caring. Surgery and outpatient services are closely interlinked at this location. Where the findings and evidence for both services are the same, we have not repeated the detail in outpatient report. In these cases, the outpatient report refers to the surgery report, where the full findings are described.

At the previous inspection, areas for improvement were identified. At this assessment, inspectors found that these had been addressed, with no ongoing regulatory breaches.

The service had strengthened its arrangements for reporting serious incidents. Leaders confirmed that incidents resulting in harm were reported to the Care Quality Commission in line with legislative requirements. Staff demonstrated improved understanding of reporting responsibilities, and learning from incidents was shared through governance processes. The service had also updated its use of the surgical safety checklist, and staff were consistently using the most up‑to‑date version in theatres.

Leaders had taken action to address out‑of‑hours nursing cover for unexpected returns to theatre, and clear arrangements were now in place.

However, we found previously raised concerns about storage space in theatre department were still there. Leaders told us they had developed plans to address the storage limitations; however, these were postponed due to financial constraints. Leaders reported they were currently reviewing options to progress these plans. In the meantime, the risk was recorded on the risk register and managed through interim controls and ongoing oversight.

Updated 9 January 2026

Practice Plus Group – Barlborough was originally known as Barlborough NHS Treatment Centre and was rebranded in October 2020 when it became part of Practice Plus Group.

The location provides surgical, diagnostic imaging and outpatient services. Outpatients was part of the surgical pathway, and where evidence is the same, please see surgery report. The outpatient department includes 7 consulting rooms, 1 treatment room and an ophthalmic outpatient suite with 3 additional rooms. The service also delivered nurse-led pre-assessment clinics for patients undergoing surgery, including those who had been seen elsewhere or required updated assessments. In addition, regular dressing clinics were provided on weekdays to support post-operative care, including wound reviews and suture or clip removal.

We inspected the outpatients department on 16 to 17 February 2026 as a planned comprehensive assessment. We assessed this service using the Care Quality Commission’s 33 quality statements under the single assessment framework. The location was last inspected in 2015 and was rated as good.

We spoke with patients and relatives/carers. We reviewed patient records. We spoke with staff which included: consultants, nurses, senior leaders and receptionists.

The outpatients department (OPD) provides consultations with specialists to decide what treatment would be best for a patient. Once a treatment is decided on, for example surgery, outpatient staff, including nurses and doctors undertake assessments and tests with patients to make sure the surgery or other treatment is right for them. Staff also see patients as outpatients after surgery or other treatment to monitor healing, prevent complications and check how well the surgery has worked.

We rated the service as good.

Updated 8 December 2025

Practice Plus Group – Barlborough was originally known as Barlborough NHS Treatment Centre and was rebranded in October 2020 when it became part of Practice Plus Group.

The location provides surgical, diagnostic imaging and outpatient services. Its main surgical specialties are orthopaedics, spinal surgery, ophthalmology and general surgery. The service has a 36‑bed ward and 6 day‑case beds. It has 4 operating theatres, including 3 laminar‑flow theatres. A laminar flow theatre is an operating theatre designed to keep the air as clean as possible during surgery. The service provides care for a mix of NHS‑funded and privately funded patients. The service primarily supports people living in Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, South Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. The service also supports a local NHS trust with waiting list management.

We inspected the surgery service on 16 and 17 February 2026 as a planned comprehensive assessment. We inspected using the Care Quality Commission’s 34 quality statements under the single assessment framework. The location was last inspected in 2015 and was rated as good. During the inspection, we spoke with 15 members of staff, including nurses, healthcare assistants, department managers/lead, senior leaders, consultants, rehabilitation and discharge coordinator, safeguarding lead, and housekeeping staff. We spoke with 11 patients, both on site and remotely, and reviewed 3 patient records.

Following this inspection, we rated this location’s surgery service as good.

Updated 1 July 2015

Overall we rated outpatients and diagnostic imaging services as good. There were reliable systems, processes and practices in place to protect patients from avoidable harm and abuse. Risks to patients were appropriately assessed, monitored and managed. Not all patient safety incidents were reported to CQC as they should have been. Patients’ needs were assessed and care, treatment and support were delivered following local and national standards and evidence based guidance.

Without exception patients told us they were treated with kindness, dignity, respect and compassion. Patients and those close to them were involved in planning their care and treatment and staff offered them appropriate emotional support.

Staff were appropriately qualified and skilled to deliver effective care and treatment. There were good examples of staff and teams working well together to deliver care. There was a culture of supportive management where staff felt respected and valued. They were proud of the service they offered and they focused on improving and promoting good quality care. There was openness and transparency and patients were actively encouraged to feed back about their experiences. There were effective systems to manage and respond to complaints but most patients did not have access to information on how to make a complaint.