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Chorley and South Ribble Hospital

Trust Offices, Chorley, PR7 1PP · NHS England North West

Rated Requires improvement by the CQC. Trust-wide at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 9 in 10 patients would recommend it. The shortest published NHS wait across this NHS trust is 4 weeks.

About this provider

Funding
NHS
Website
Telephone
01257261222
CQC provider ID
RXN
CQC location ID
RXN01

Care Quality Commission rating

Most recent inspection: 2023-11-24.

Requires improvement 2 of 4 CQC bands

Rating at each inspection

2019-11-07Good
2018-10-17Requires improvement
2017-04-21Requires improvement
2014-11-14Requires improvement

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. CQC uses a four-band scale and does not issue a star rating.

What the CQC inspected

The CQC rates every service against five key questions. These are the ratings from the most recent inspection.

Safe
Requires improvement
Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?
Effective
Good
Does care, treatment and support achieve good outcomes and follow the best available evidence?
Caring
Good
Do staff involve and treat people with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect?
Responsive
Requires improvement
Are services organised to meet people's needs?
Well-led
Good
Do leadership, management and governance assure high-quality care?

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30.

Specialties treated here

NHS specialties with a published waiting time at this NHS trust. Select one for how it compares across the area.

What patients said

The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend the service. Responses for May 2026. These figures are for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and cover all its hospitals.

Inpatient care
92%
would recommend · 1,638 responses
A&E
77%
would recommend · 362 responses
Outpatient appointments
91%
would recommend · 2,597 responses

NHS England Friends and Family Test, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The FFT is not a formal performance measure and response rates vary between services.

Cancer waiting times

How quickly this trust diagnoses and starts treatment for people referred with a suspicion of cancer. Data for March 2026. Targets are the NHS operational standards. No English region currently meets the 62-day standard. These figures are for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital.

62-day treatment
77%
% starting first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral
target 85%
28-day diagnosis
84%
% told they have cancer, or that they do not, within 28 days of an urgent referral
target 75%
31-day treatment
93%
% starting first treatment within 31 days of the decision to treat
target 96%

62-day treatment by cancer type

The share of patients who began treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, for each type this trust reports. The national aim is 85%. Numbers per type are smaller, so they move more from month to month.

Cancer typeWithin 62 days
Breast97%
Lung57%
Bowel67%
Prostate69%
Skin96%
Gynaecological59%
Head and neck51%
Lymphoma44%
Oesophagus and stomach82%
Liver and bile duct94%
Other urological54%
Other blood100%

NHS England Cancer Waiting Times, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. Provisional monthly data. Small numbers of patients can move a percentage sharply.

Mortality (SHMI)

The Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator compares the number of people who die after care at this trust with the number expected, given how ill the patients were. Rolling 12 months to August 2025. This figure is for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital.

As expected SHMI 0.941.00 = as expected

NHS Digital, Accredited Official Statistic, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-08-30. The SHMI is not a measure of the quality of care and a “higher than expected” band is a flag for further investigation, not a judgement. It must not be used to rank trusts. It does not include deaths of patients receiving palliative care where that is coded.

NHS waiting times, trust-wide

Waiting times are reported by NHS trusts, not by individual hospitals. These figures are for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, which runs this hospital along with its other sites. Waits at this site may differ.

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment, latest published month.
SpecialtyMedian waitWithin 18 weeksPatients waiting
All specialties14 wks59%60,692
Cardiology11 wks68%2,898
Dermatology11 wks62%1,872
Ear, nose and throat11 wks68%3,171
Elderly medicine7 wks91%158
Gastroenterology20 wks46%1,869
General internal medicine15 wks59%2,002
General surgery19 wks48%223
Gynaecology13 wks61%1,748
Neurology17 wks51%8,644
Neurosurgery13 wks61%3,615
Ophthalmology10 wks75%3,477
Oral surgery17 wks52%4,724
Other medical services14 wks62%6,184
Other services4 wks96%425
Other surgical services14 wks58%7,141
Paediatric services17 wks53%1,802
Plastic surgery16 wks55%4,229
Trauma and orthopaedics17 wks53%4,561
Urology13 wks63%1,949

NHS-funded care only. Does not reflect private appointment availability. Retrieved 2026-08-30.

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