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Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

NHS trust · ODS code RGM

About this trust

Type: NHS acute trust
Hospitals: 1 on the CQC register
Website: www.royalpapworth.nhs.uk

Care Quality Commission rating

Trust-wide rating, most recent inspection: 2019-10-16.

Outstanding 4 of 4 CQC bands

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25.

What the CQC inspected

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

Safe

Outstanding

Are people protected from abuse and avoidable harm?

Effective

Outstanding

Does care, treatment and support achieve good outcomes and follow the best available evidence?

Caring

Outstanding

Do staff involve and treat people with compassion, kindness, dignity and respect?

Responsive

Outstanding

Are services organised to meet people's needs?

Well-led

Outstanding

Do leadership, management and governance assure high-quality care?

Care Quality Commission, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25.

What patients said

The NHS Friends and Family Test asks patients whether they would recommend the service. Responses for May 2026.

Inpatient care

99%

would recommend · 879 responses

Outpatient appointments

98%

would recommend · 285 responses

NHS England Friends and Family Test, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25. 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.

62-day treatment

77%

% starting first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral
target 85%

28-day diagnosis

% told they have cancer, or that they do not, within 28 days of an urgent referral
target 75%

31-day treatment

100%

% 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 type	Within 62 days
Lung	78%
Lymphoma	50%

NHS England Cancer Waiting Times, Open Government Licence v3.0, retrieved 2026-10-25. Provisional monthly data. Small numbers of patients can move a percentage sharply.

Research output

Papers published by researchers affiliated with this trust, indexed by OpenAlex.

91 papers in 2026

2022: 137 · 2023: 148 · 2024: 173 · 2025: 183 · 2026: 91

Top subject areas:

Mechanical Circulatory Support DevicesPulmonary Hypertension Research and TreatmentsTransplantation: Methods and OutcomesCardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsCardiac Arrhythmias and Treatments

See the paper list on OpenAlex →

OpenAlex, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-25. Counts by publication year, not by when a paper's affiliation record was last updated - a recent year's count can still rise as OpenAlex indexes more of that year's output.

NHS waiting times, trust-wide

Weeks from referral to treatment for NHS-funded care, across all this trust's sites.

Source: NHS England Referral to Treatment. Median wait is for the latest published month; the trend covers every month since we began keeping the series.
Specialty	Median wait	Within 18 weeks	Patients waiting	Trend
All specialties	8 wks	80%	5,670	1 week shorter since Jan 2026
Cardiology	13 wks	60%	2,190	1 week shorter since Jan 2026
Cardiothoracic surgery	8 wks	80%	542	2 weeks shorter since Jan 2026
Respiratory medicine	5 wks	96%	2,938	2 weeks shorter since Jan 2026

NHS-funded care only. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Hospitals in this trust

Each is inspected and rated separately.