Updated 31 January 2022
Nuffield Health North Staffordshire Hospital is operated by Nuffield Health. The hospital opened in 1978 and is located in Newcastle Under Lyme in Staffordshire. The hospital primarily serves the communities of Staffordshire but also accepts patient referrals from outside the area. The hospital provides the following regulated activities: -
- Treatment of disease, disorder and injury.
- Surgical procedures
- Diagnostic and screening procedures.
The hospital does not carry out any surgical procedures on children. The hospital carried out 6,001 surgical procedures from November 2020 to October 2021 and has both NHS and private patients.
We have inspected the hospital three times since 2016. The last inspection took place in August 2019 when the Outpatients and Diagnostic imaging core services were inspected and rated as good overall.
We inspected the Surgery core service on 23 November 2021 and have rated the service as good overall. We did not inspect the medical core service, outpatients or diagnostic services as part of this inspection.